Mini-Dvd Review: Grizzly Man

What's it about?
Grizzly Man could easily have been sensational and exploitative, but in the hands of Werner Herzog, it becomes something extraordinary. Herzog was granted exclusive access to over 100 hours of video shot by amateur naturalist, wildlife advocate and troubled loner Timothy Treadwell, who spent 13 summers in Alaska's Katmai National Park, where he grew to know and love the grizzly bears that lived there. He was also killed by one of them, in October 2003, along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard, and that seemingly inevitable fate informs every minute of Herzog's riveting combination of Treadwell's video with his own expert filmmaking and unique vision of nature and man.

My appreciation of the film: Cinthia, Martin, Anne-Marie and Myself watched this documentary last night not knowing what to expect. i picked this film up in Vancouver last week. All I had heard was that it was supposed to be good. I have been pretty lucky as of late with my documentary picks. This one was an odd one.

I can't say that we didn't like it. it was interesting. It was beautiful. it was intreaguing to find out what would happen next. We knew the guy was going to die but his descent into some strange sort of madness was a little hard to watch. It left us with many questions regarding his life choice for the last 13 summers of his life. Should he have been let there alone with these beasts? Did he get what he had coming? It's for the viewer to decide.

Rating: 6 grizzly bears out of 10