Description: This is a documentary about a man who lived among bears in a reservation in Alaska and got killed by one of them. His girlfriend was with him and got killed too.
Appraisal: Interesting documentary. It has been advertised (by the filmmaker inclusive, in the film itself) as an 'investigation about human nature', which any film can be said to be; anyway it's a bad move for a filmmaker to be telling his audience what his film is supposed to be. Treadwell was a left-hander, and suffered from a common tendency among left-handers, that of addiction. He somehow found a cure among the wildlife, living with bears and foxes; he probably died much later than he would have, had he stayed in the city drinking and drugging himself. The film wastes precious time interviewing a moronic fat guy (I don't remember what he was) who hints that Treadwell 'deserved to die' among other nonsense, and showing a ridiculous scene where the histrionic coroner hands over the dead guy's watch to one of Treadwell's former girlfriends. That - and the at times corny narration - aside, it's a watchable documentary that evokes some fictional films such as The Blair Witch Project, The Last Cannibal World (I haven't seen its allegedly better companion piece Cannibal Holocaust), the based-on-a-true-story Gorillas in the Mist, and all those films - the first of which may be The Lost World - featuring fierce battles between two huge monsters.
Rating: 51
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