Not all paranoia is great

Stan 2021-12-26 08:01:01

The most memorable passage is that after the slightly neurotic and exuberant forensic uncle, who described the final recording vividly, Herzog did not stop there. He appeared in person and listened to a recording from a close friend of the deceased Treadwell.
At this time, he was the only one listening to the headset, and there was no sound. After listening for a while, he started sobbing softly, asking his close friends to stop playing, and then said to close friends who have not heard the recording, I beg you to never listen to this, and you should destroy this recording, and no one should ever hear it. .
In this clip, we didn't see Herzog's face from beginning to end. He kept the camera on his side, and we could only see a close friend who was sitting opposite him holding a video recording. She kept staring at Herzog, listening to the recording, the conversation. From the panic, trembling and painful reaction on her face, we can completely make up for the look of Herzog in her eyes at that moment, and the death recording that will never be heard again.

The grizzly man was killed by the bear. This is the end of the movie's protagonist's life, and it is also the moment when he and the bear have the greatest intersection. So, what happened at that moment? If the film is to be established, this is a question that the director cannot avoid. And, we have a video tape that fully records the live sound.
However, how to present this sound content is actually very tricky. Herzog’s approach is worthy of being a master.

First, he didn't directly play the sound. Second, he didn't let his close friends listen to her and take pictures of her. Third, he didn't let the camera directly capture his facial expressions when listening to the recording.
Instead, it uses an abnormal, indirect and indirect way, and also breaks the bystander boundary of the recorder, and has no secret intervention in the record object.
But I can't think of a more perfect way. Under the balance of expressing tension and human ethics, an optimal fulcrum has been found.

As for Treadwell, I believe his feelings for those bears and foxes are real. He named each of them, and he does enjoy being with them more than humans. But he is definitely not the son of nature he advertises. He reminds me of the travel celebrities on Weibo. Doing what the public looks like is crazy, not because you love it, but to show it to the public, even at the expense of cheating, to reincarnate a lofty ideal, just to gain attention and find a sense of existence.
Treadwell's use of life to show off can only show his paranoia.

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  • Antonio 2022-04-23 07:02:51

    I don't really like to watch documentaries, this is one of the few that makes me feel good

  • Stuart 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    Although it is telling the story of Moshe Treadwell, I see Herzog, who has always been stubborn and persistent, in the film. Best documentary I've seen in 2006.

Grizzly Man quotes

  • Sam Egli: That bear, I think, that day, decided that he had either had enough of Tim Treadwell or that something clicked in that bear's head that he thought 'Hey, you know, he might be good to eat.'

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