The Grizzly Man is an exciting tale of impending carnivorous doom. Why?
For thirteen years throughout the summer, Timothy Treadwell would be flown to Alaska's Katmai National Park (and then left there, by pilot and ex rodeo rider, Willy Fulton) to spend his summer months with the bears that reside there.
He would trek through the national park, through an area called the Grizzly Maze.
In the last five years with the bears he shot over one hundred hours worth of footage.
During his expeditions he was mostly alone, except for the last two years in which his woman counterpart Amie Huguenard would accompany him - even though she was reportedly terrified of the beasts.
In 2003, they were consumed by one of the bears that Timothy loved so much.
It was Fulton that discovered the remains of what appeared to be human ribs.
Treadwell had turned the camera on at the time of being done in by the ravenous bear, however the lens cap was on - so no visual. There isn't any audio either, due to director Herzog not wanting to make a snuff film.
Some say he was flirting with death, others thought he was crazy.
Near the end of his life it seemed he preferred bears to humans.
I thought the documentary was well narrated by director, Herzog but thought the antics of Treadwell were somewhat foolish and that the man had lost contact with his human side along the years.
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