Saturday, May 15, 2010

Grizzly Man *****


Director: Werner Herzog
Year: 2005

There is no better director to handle the story of Timothy Treadwell, a man who's obsession with bears and hatred for the human world drove him to the illusion that he had conquered the world of the bears and earned his own place among them... he was wrong, nature is harsh and cruel, it does not make friends with humans, in the end a bear took Treadwell's life and ate his corpse.

This is virtually every theme found in the great films of Werner Herzog's career... men obsessed with conquering some aspect of nature, of carving out their own place as king of nature... but who are deeply mistaken. The mystique and allure of nature can not be tamed or controlled or managed by humanity. As Herzog says in his narration, his experience has shown that chaos rules in the natural world. He who mistakes nature's power will be among the first of its victims, and mad men will be conquered and destroyed by nature just as they think they have conquered nature. Nature always gets the last word in Herzog's work, like "Aguirre: The Wrath of God".

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