1/ Grizzly Man (2005): The film’s metapolitical content centres on Timothy Treadwell as the archetypal naive liberal from California out of his depth in wild nature. Despite wanting to “save” grizzly bears he causes chaos, for the bears & everyone else.
7/ Yet, I can’t help but think that spending 13 summers touching grizzly bears was sort of an act of defiance or crazy divine inspiration (not unlike Philippe Petit tightrope walking between the WTC towers). 13 summers is 13 more than anyone would expect, given what he was up to.
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8/ “God looks after drunks, fools, and the US.” Perhaps he was lucky, or perhaps there was some kind of divine madness that protected him with the bears. The fact he spent so much time with with grizzlies & lived challenges the ethology of bears.
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9/ What do we *really* know about a grizzly’s wild behaviour? The people who sneered at Treadwell disliked him because he repeatedly defied what they knew to be true. They were relieved to be vindicated when he died, bc they were starting to doubt their expertise on bears.
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10/ End: Treadwell was the archetypal naive liberal about to get everyone killed by not understanding human nature & the cruelty of the wild. But he also contained a Dionysian artistic element that defies the limits & arouses envy from others, gifting us a new way of seeing.
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