What a harrowing experience! I've never seen anything like it and I doubt I ever will. I was so moved by this incredible true story that I couldn't say anything for hours. I just had to sit alone and contemplate what Herzog's film and Treadwell's life both meant.

Grizzly Man is about Timothy Treadwell, a troubled man passionate about understanding and protecting wild grizzly bears. He would often live amongst grizzly bears, documenting his adventures through film and running an…

As Werner Herzog rightly states towards the ending of this masterful documentary, it is not the nature of the bears into which the viewer is gaining an insight, but rather the nature of humanity. By focusing on 'grizzly man' Timothy Treadwell, Herzog is able to pose questions of remarkable profundity in a simple and unassuming way. Was Treadwell right to abandon human society in search of meaning and contentment with his life? Was his apparent clarity a facade? What is…

Ok, so this is why everyone loves Herzog docs. I've seen his three most recent documentaries and didn't love any of them, but Grizzly Man is totally fascinating. I think the subject(Treadwell) was the most interesting of the four films, and the available material made the difference. It let Herzog tell a story without having to interject himself too much, and we were able to see an amazingly foreign personality in life and death, as opposed to relatively normal people…

A documentary about a man who is shunned by two worlds; who becomes so enthralled by the domain of grizzly bears, that he loses his love for the human realm, and is tragically destroyed by the species he became paranoid protecting. My first Herzog film, and the final film that Tetramoose planned to introduce me to. I viewed this film without his company, but that will probably be only occurring whenever I got to a cinema to view a new…

I had the good fortune to see this when it came out, courtesy of a science teacher with an eye for a different means of education. I'd not heard of Werner Herzog (I wasn't remotely close to being interested in films in those days), but as soon as I heard his voice I fell in love. The old idea of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object is one overused to the point of triteness, yet here it's one worth…

Werner Herzog's subjects are always extraordinary and eccentric people, regardless of whether or not his film is a documentary. Previous films like "God's Angry Man" and "Fitzcarraldo" are two great examples of extraordinary and eccentric character subjects and the latter of which was made with equal eccentricity by Herzog.

Grizzly Man, however, is Herzog's finest film as a documentary filmmaker. Taking real footage filmed by it's subject, Timothy Treadwell, Herzog splices interviews with Treadwell's family and friends with footage of…