You Gotta See This Movie

A movie that had been in my Netflix queue for more than a year finally made it to the top. Grizzly Man is a documentary by German director Werner Herzog. It features Tim Treadwell, a Californian who spent 13 years living among Alaska's grizzly bear population. Grizzly Man made it into my queue based on a recommendation from a friend. I need to take my friend's film recommendations a lot more seriously.

Grizzly Man is the most compelling movie I have seen in as long as I can remember.

Using much of Treadwell's own film footage from Alaska, Herzog presents a fascinating look at someone whose exuberance, passion, and unbounded enthusiasm mask a heartbreaking madness, a madness that results in Treadwell's own death and the death of a companion. Watching Herzog listen to the final audio tape of Treadwell and his girlfriend was, for me, more eerie and appalling than actually hearing it myself.

Wow. I mean, wow. Listen to my friend. You gotta see this movie.
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