Grizzly Man is one of those rare documentaries that functions on multiple levels…it's both an intimate, empathic portrait of Timothy Treadwell, a man deeply (and dangerously) obsessed with living among grizzly bears, and a philosophical back-and-forth between Treadwell’s romanticized view of nature and Werner Herzog’s stark, often brutal realism.
Built mostly from Treadwell’s own footage (with his childlike narration and passionate monologues) it’s fascinating to watch him create this almost mythic narrative of his life in the Alaskan wilderness. He…
