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Originally Posted by GforGroove
yeah, i didnt mean to say that was a film about the nature of animals of the relation with this guy... just that for me the relation with the animals and his "teddy bear" attitude triggers the story 
yeah is more a doc of a tortured soul  |
yeah i really didn't mean for that to read like i was disagreeing with you or anything... i just said it because I personally went in expecting to see much more of a nature type thing... so it was a surprise for me to find that the subject was really the guy... i guess that's why it's called Grizzly Man and not just Grizzly huh
(me = slow sometimes)
my movie journal: i wrote it. Peter Bogdanovich did the same thing for 17 years but he used index cards.... him = crazy. If you want me to set one up for you, it wouldn't be too tough.
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I was constantly shifting back and forth between laughing at Timothy and feeling really sad for him. Toward the end when it reveals some of his past habits, Herzog really paints in this guy's character and why he did what he did. Ultimately, he's protecting bears in an already protected spot of land with hopes of becoming some real bear saviour and documenting it all for Animal Planet. I think we never really get a true moment with him because he's always playing to his camera in his own little world. If anything, i think the scene where he gets caught up in cursing all the people who's stood in his way was the closest we get, and that's also the scene where it really shows his mental illness.
What I loved about Herzog's interviews as well though, was that each person gave a really "fake" sounding interview, you know what i mean? it sounded really staged and like they had thought out exactly what they were going to say beforehand... but then Herzog left the camera rolling like a few seconds too long each time, so you see each person finish up their story and look at herzog like "now's when you say cut, right?" but the camera keeps rolling long enough to give us a glimpse of them with their guard down. I think that's the same way Timothy is presented to us... he's always "on" but you get just the tiniest glimpses of the real him...
but yeah, mainly i think Timothy had some mental unbalance and sort of made up this grand mission that would comfort him, and although it ultimately got him killed, he was pretty happy for 13 summers it looks like...