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Grizzly Man (2005)

Documentary | 103 minutes
3,33 845 votes

Genre: Documentary / Biography

Duration: 103 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Werner Herzog

Stars: Timothy Treadwell, Werner Herzog and Jewel Palovak

IMDb score: 7,7 (66.790)

Releasedate: 12 August 2005

Grizzly Man plot

"In nature, there are boundaries. One man spent the last 13 years of his life crossing them."

Grizzly Man depicts the life and death of amateur grizzly bear expert and conservationist Timothy Treadwell. Treadwell lived unarmed among bears for thirteen summers, capturing the last five seasons of his wilderness adventures on film. In October 2003, the remains of Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were found near their camp site in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Reserve. They had been badly beaten and eaten by a grizzly bear, becoming the first recorded victims of a bear attack in the park. It explores not only the mystery of the wilderness but also the mystery of human nature as Treadwell's last five years in the wilderness are charted.

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A subtle reckoning. Herzog does a decent job and talks about beauty and depth in the beginning, but doesn't fail to put Treadwell in his place. Irritating man who starts sentences with 'I' far too often. Funny that someone on the way tells that the bears probably saw him as a deranged ghost. Herzog must have been delighted with that comment.

He peels off his filmmaker, as it were. At first an enthusiastic guy who tells children about grizzly bears, but not much of that is left in the last half hour. It is a pity that the girl remains underexposed, although something is implicitly said about it. I do believe that Treadwell loved the beasts, but also that his distaste for ordinary society was many times greater.

You can tell by the people closest to him. The woolly types that give you the creeps. That with the watch for example. It could have been a bit sharper in my opinion, but Treadwell certainly won't get away with it. What remains are beautiful bears, beautiful foxes and here and there also beautiful images, but around a less beautiful, overshot human being.

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starbright boy (moderator films)

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It is striking how many people here seem to think they are getting a nature documentary. Or a hero story. It is not and it was never intended that way. This is primarily a portrait of Timothy Treadwell. One of the things that makes this movie better than the somewhat related Into The Wild for me is that this movie shows a barrel full of contradictions and doesn't highlight any of them. Into the Wild goes gigantic to a kind of worship.

Treadwell was unique. A town boy who survives thirteen summers among Grizzlies (I would have been dead in a day) and also full of childlike enthusiasm and passion. But also theatrical, almost childish and quite convinced of his own right, even though there is a lot to be said for that. He is also a narcissist and the film suggests that he increasingly became one. With the pleasantly unpolished Herzog edge. And he was undoubtedly attracted to the man because they share some traits.

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Fisico

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Beautiful documentary that revolves more about the figure of Timothy Treadwell than about the bears. The bears naturally occupy a prominent place, but it is rather Timothy who steals the show. In various scenes and conversations you have the impression that he is struggling with psychological problems. It seems like a naive idealist, ecologist who has a problem with living together in a human society where he is not understood.

There are several scenes that raise eyebrows. How he thinks in his own way about gays and women, for example, extremely positive indeed, but rather simple and with a childlike logic. However he goes against the park rangers as if they were the worst enemies… How he dealt with the foxes, bumblebees and the bears…

He seemed crazy and in his dealings did not resemble other adventurers like McCandless from Into the wild. Special figure. But let's not forget the beautiful strong images of the bears and untouched Alaska that make it worth watching this documentary.

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