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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Grizzly man



This is a documentary film by Werner Herzog and it is about a bear fan Timothy Treadwell.
In the film, you could see many clips starred by Timothy. From Timothy's analysis in this movie, I see the many aspect of Timothy Treadwell.
I personally think this film have two side of argument. One side is saying that he is innocent because he try to protect grizzly bear and try to contact with them. Another side is saying that he is interrupt grizzly bears' habitat. In my mind, I do not want to set which side am I on because I think he is both good and bad. Another reason that I do not want to criticize or go for him is because I could not tell Timothy is good or bad by just watching a film about him. In the film there was only people's bias about him. Connect this to current world, this is similar to news. Many thing on news is prepared by the news reporter and the people in company and it usually bias . Sometimes by just watching a small amount of news. You could not tell the truth.
I found something interesting and it was related to the film. In Tyler and Roanne's discussion, we have discussed through an idea. People who stress by the life usually wanted to interact with animals. I found Timothy Treadwell could be an good example of the idea. In the film, it showed Timothy had a rough life after he got out from high school and he been through drugs and alcoholism. However, his mind is not dead, so he decide to quite his life and start contact with wild nature.

5 comments:

Tina (Yi-Hsuan) H. said...

Just like you said, the film featured their family members and friends' point of views of Timothy, and I agree those can be a little bit biased or emotion based. But don't you think that he is showing the true side of himself when he was swearing, or when he was feeling sad for a dead bee he found on a flower?! He did not say those words because of someone else told him to. He was just expressing himself. I think those scenes show the real side of him.

Coco said...

I think that in some ways, you can tell by the movie what a man Timothy is. If you noticed, there were both positive and negative comments. Yes what those people telll might change how you feel towards Timothy, but i do not feel that it changes us or influence us alot. It's up to us to decide what we see him as. We shuldn't be infuenced by what they say, because we might think different. We are not them!

Mr. Loken said...

It is a fact that animals help relieve stress and make people calm. They have done a few experiments to prove this. Is it bad that Timothy wanted to leave modern society? Isn't it his right to do so? What was it about Timothy that made people judge him so much?

Jack said...

very descriptive. I totally agree with the part when you talk about how stressed humans interact with animals. Even though I don't think that is the case for Timothy, but I still agree that we humans do look for peace and comfort from the animals. I actually think Timothy goes into th wild because he wants to rebel against the society and to change the world. I believe he is someone that desperately wants to make a different in the world. I got this from his attitude in the movie, and maybe I misinterpreted him...but yea, thats what I think.

jiwoon kim said...

Yes, I agree with your post about his past life. His past wasn't that good, But, it's like just what you said, He is not bad guy, He just wanted different. I believe, He wants to against with society or want to change society. That's why he tried really brave life with those wild bears and animals.