1. 22 February 2006

    Grizzly Man

    1051 days ago

    Grizzly Man.

    I caught wind of the film from a review on kuro5hin. Quite the review of the film, I read the first few paragraphs about a guy living 13 summers in Katmai National Park, in the middle of nowhere, for the most part all alone. (I applied for a job at Katmai maybe a month ago, and would really love to get it – but I’m grossly underqualified, and doubt it will happen.)

    He took rolls and rolls of photo and video footage of bears roaming, romping, playing, fighting, eating. Right in the park, in an environment where over the course of a summer a few planes would fly over, a few boats might come for the afternoon. The documentary deals more with his personal side then it does his bear footage, but I can only imagine what kind of bear footage he managed to get.

    It’s really amazing. Awesome. Reckless, maybe stupid, the guy might just have been a total wacko. But the film got the best out of me, I’d feel like laughing and crying at the same time, there would just be that energy surging through my chest.

    I can’t say I feel bad for the guy, he was living among fucking grizzly bears. But what he managed to do, the film he took, the fact that this guy could walk up to and pet wild grizzly bears right on the nose. He knew them by name. That’s impressive.

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