Grizzly Man

Timothy Treadwell was a strange man. An aspiring actor who was known to changes his personality for unknown reasons. Many people may call him a hero, but I feel as if our class generally thinks he was just psychotic. He had no formal training dealing with wild animals, especially bears. All he had was a strange obsession with them. While it may seem noble to go out and document the animals, his “research” wasn’t very scientific. It was simply a crazy guy with a camera following wild animals. Many people think he wanted to be a bear, but I think that he just gave these bears the personalities of the types of people he would have liked to deal with. This makes some sense when you consider all of the silly names he came up with. He made them out to be fun playful animals who just wanted to play, when in actuality they were just wild animals. I also feel like it was more of a role for him than an actual lifestyle. Everything he did was so theatrical and over the top, that it I just felt that he was putting on a show, for the world to see. I believe that he really didn’t accomplish anything substantial because everything he did was for the wrong reasons. He was just a crazed man whose obsession with bears took on a whole new life after his own started spiraling downward.
On a side note, over the weekend I went to Red Lobster with a friend and her parents, and could not stop thinking about how they are cooked. Eventually they just told me to stop talking about it because they were getting annoyed. I think it’s interesting that they were uncomfortable talking about it, even though they were planning on ordering seafood in the first place.