Saw Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man this evening. At several points Herzog directly voices his opinion that Nature is fundamentally chaotic and brutal, and contrasts this with Treadwell’s romantic, anthropomorphic and sentimental take on the huge Grizzly bears of Alaska.
You might initially think Herzog correct, given that Treadwell and his girlfriend were killed and eaten by a bear; but although Herzog’s a compelling presence on screen and behind the camera and I admire his seriousness I wondered why anyone should think there’s a fundamental nature to Nature. Germanic tendency to theorise, I guess.
Recommended.
