I saw the movie: The Grizzly Man, last weekend. The film showed a broken man in an unrealized state, struggling for purpose. This was a soul who was unfulfilled as an individual and as a human. Are they one and the same? Maybe not.

Unfortunately this film was simply an oppetunity for a documentary filmaker to cash in on a sad, lost man. The documentary at times smacked of humour like that seen in American Movie. If you haven’t seen American Movie –I recommend it. In a sick way I was very amused by the lives of the characters in American Movie -even though it clearly mocked the real lives of the characters it documented. The shots were obviously set up for humour, and I laughed.

Unfortunately I couldn’t laugh at the B-Movie melodramatic mocking that was stitched so purposefully into the filming of “The Grizzly Man”. The shot of Timothy Treadwell’s Mom and Dad in the All American Front Garden looking so posed they could have stepped out of some Leave it to Beaver tribute; the coroner if full regalia stationed in a mock morgue overdramatically recalling Timothy’s last moments on this earth; the long, sometimes ridiculous pauses in the dialogue whith the camera relentlessly rolling – subject painfully trapped in staged, overdramatic moments and finally; the pilot speaking squarely into the camera proclaiming that Tim Treadwell got what he deserved, all make a mockery of this already tortured man.

If Karl Marx felt people of his time suffered a disconnect from the modes of production in their society; Timothy Treadwell epitomized our current state of sickness; our own extreme disconnect from ourselves and our environment.

The footage Timothy Treadwell shot was stunning and his relationship with nature is thought provoking to say the least. Go see this film, but beware that it is somewhat of a mirror to us all in one way or another.

Related:
http://www.katmaibears.com/grizzlyattack.htm
http://www.grizzlypeople.com/home.php

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