Grizzly Man
I must admit that what drew me to watching this film was that I thought it would be Jackass with bears. And while there is a certain freak-quotient going on, there's a lot of sensitivity and beauty too. Alaska looks stunning. The foxes are cute. But the grizzlies just don't care.Essentially this is the story of Timothy Treadwell, a man who refers to himself as Timmy. for god's sake. He reminded me of Paul Giamatti's mate out of Sideways, the sort of fellow who can't stop acting even if he really tries. Now take him, and plonk him down in the middle of Alaska for 13 years, and he's going to turn into something really freaky. But Herzog engages with his personality, and tries to understand it. There's even a point where he compares him to Klaus Kinski, and I suppose, from Herzog, there can be no higher honour.
The story of Treadwell is compelling, but there are so many pleasurable incidentals - the scary pathologist, the pilot with the mustache who chews on a blade of grass, and Treadwell's ex-girlfriend with her bear earrings - that make it a engrossing film indeed.
This film is good. Check it out, at the cinema or on DVD.
posted by Chairman Peyote @ 2:33 PM
3 Comments:
Sounds good if you were expecting Jackass with bears but what if you WANTED Jackass with bears?
Was the audience mostly men? Could this be what LaLa termed a dick flick? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Sign me up.
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I have to say that there has already been Jackass with bears, when the man gets into his bear suit and goes in with the bear. But this is a better film because it's not just laughing at the freak. That would make it a boy's film.
But because it talks about nature and people and things like this, I think this is actually a gender-neutral film. Like Gorillas in the Mist but with a geezer in it, bears, and no gorillas.
Hmmmm, quite a good analogy. But it would have been quite cool to have gorillas as well. Or perhaps even Guerillas.
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