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Ha ha ha, A deeply deeply disturbed man decides to live in a world of crass sentiment and save the bears, only the bears don’t need saving, they aren’t endangered but the Grizzly man’s sanity is totally top of the vanishing items list. Quite appropriately this feature length documentary is made by maverick director Werner Herzog.
It is a marvel of nonsense that some how takes you into the demented psyche of Timothy Treadwell as he lives and blunders around in the Alaskan wilderness. It is like an episode of South Park complete with Mr. Hat .
There are so many funny scenes that it is too difficult to pick out my favourite but the interview with the coroner is high on the list. Unfortunately for Timmy (I love you bears!!!) he got eaten by one as did his all but invisible girlfriend, who hardly ever appears in the video tapes that Timmy shot to show how he was all alone in the wilderness.
Fortunately for us he got eaten so we don’t have to put up with any more of his nonsense, I am not sure if Herzog meant this film to be so funny, somehow I doubt it, but it is, it really is.
They didn’t use the last piece of tape that Timmy shot the audio only tape of him and his girlfriend becoming a bears breakfast – shame. Still a really cool film!
www.grizzlymanmovie.com