Movie of the Week: Grizzly Man

Netflix brough Grizzly Man to our mailbox this week. Its an great look at someone on a noble mission that just isn't thinking quite straight about it. Ex-addict Timothy Treadwell loves bears. Maybe a little too much. `For thirteen years Treadwell spent most of every summer living on the Alaskan penninsula, with his beloved bears. Until they ate him.

His love causes him to have a lot of interaction with them - thus habituating them to human contact. Not good. His long rants about poachers and other threats to the grizzlies are contradicted by the fact that he rarely sees anyone in his remote part of Alaska - let alone people interested in hurting bears.

That's not to say bears don't need protection. But his type of protecting, maybe not so much.

It appears that he was filming his own Jeff Corwin Experience or Crocodile Hunter style documentary. Over 100 hours of footage was available, allowing Treadwell to tell much of his own story. Director Werner Herzog narrates a bit and interviews friends and family members to allow us to understand Treadwell better. I don't think I understand him, but it was a very interesting movie.

Mr. Colbert - you need to move bears back to the number 1 spot on your threatdown list.