A nuanced look at a troubled individual whose desire to do good ultimately didn’t outweigh humanity’s ability to harm.
Timothy Treadwell wanted to be Steve Irwin but he was more like Chris McCandless. During the film, Herzog notes that Treadwell saw friendship in bears while Herzog sees the brutality of nature. They’re both wrong in their own way.
Nature isn’t kind or brutal, it simply is. Humans too often forget we are part of nature and are subject to its rules.
