Timothy Treadwell, the film maker of the movie, Grizzly Man, showed all of his attitude toward the nature world from his film. His goal was to send people the message that we should all have respect to the natural. Unfortunately, he died in the middle of his filming.
Before I talk about how I feel about Timothy's action, I am first going to say what I think of the video. It is indeed something I have never seen before. I have never seen a film of a man that goes and lives in the wild life without any weapons or any protective tools. He showed a lot of love to the nature throughout out the film and it's unlike most of the other documentaries, his film does not seem like a propaganda.
It not only has some thoughtful insight that is spread by a well done manner, but also shows you a lot of Timothy's background information so the audience could be more familiarize with him. However, one thing I didn't like about the film is that it didn't show the final shot he had; the one that showed his death. It's not that I was hoping to see some killing scenes. I thought it would be more touching if it even shows you Tim's reaction when he was being beaten up by his most beloved bears.
What about my thoughts of the film? Like I mentioned above, it is a very well done documentary, and the message was pretty clear. And of course, Timothy was a great man. Not a lot of people have the guts to try doing something that the other people haven't done, and only a very few people are willing to give up everything for what they truly love. Having said that, I still think he was a bit too naive. Japanese Bushido has a saying, "Power without justice is violence; Justice without power is buncombe." Timothy has a lot of love to the nature and the bears and he wanted the rest of us to do the same thing, which is great, but he should not have gone into the wild and died so soon. I agree with his point that most people will remember him only if he dies, however, if he wanted to die, he should have planned out something bigger. Otherwise it seemed like he was just a guy who loved nature but ended up eaten by a bear.
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I would also like to see the part where he died because I wanted to see what he said and what his reactions were, even if they just put the voice and don't show the images.
Even after his death, I don't think many people are more aware....
Nice blog entry! :)
Good entry, I feel compelled to disagree with you about the final death scene. I think it was a good idea not to play the audio clip of Treadwell's death. I do not think it would be respectful to him to present to the world his final screams. Beneficial as the clip may be to us, I am convinced that he would not have liked to have to world listen to him die.
I have to agree that I'm glad the final scene was never shown. For me it would have cheapened the film. You made a comment in your last paragraph that if he was going to kill himself he should have planned something bigger. I think what he did was pretty big. Being eaten by a bear while capturing it on tape. That's more interesting than how other people die. However I did read a story yesterday of a lady who was killed by a mantra ray that jumped into her boat and knocked her on the ground causing her to hit her head. That is also quite an extraordinary way to die.
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