Friday, December 4, 2009
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The question of Timothy Treadwell's sanity is something I find very interesting and I spend a lot of the time viewing the movie thinking about it. I think the movie greatly manipulated the footage to make him seems crazy. Although, there may be some truth behind it all. After all he spent more than a decade just living with Bears in Alaska with almost no real other human contact for months at a time. I think that prolonged absence from the rest of humanity must have had some effect on him. That is probably why he grew to love the bears so much and felt so strongly about becoming a bear or least close to the bears. Or maybe he wanted to be a bear his whole life, who knows. This is something I would find very interesting to have studied in the beginning, before he set out with the bears as well as when he was out with them. I think Timothy deserved a better director. I think a lot of the footage was apart of his personal diary. Since Timothy was on his own out in the wilderness he was free to express his thoughts such as when he openly spoke about relationships and insecurities he had. I think it was wrong to show all of that in a way. He had no one to talk to but that camera and the footage of his thoughts seems to me to be a bit exploited.
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Sounds like you're a bit conflicted about Timothy, Shannon! Which is ok -- in fact, I'm guessing Timothy himself would understand.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of the film that was shown, I don't know the status of every piece of footage. On the other hand, he clearly seemed to have an audience in mind for it, didn't he?
You say that Timothy was alone and probably saw his camera as his only escape. On the other hand, he did bring along different women over the course of his travels and so why we don't see them on film, Timothy was not alone
ReplyDeleteI think that the director had good intentions with what he put into the documentary and what he left out. In the scene where he tells Timothy's friend never to listen to the tape, it is evident that he is being genuinely good-hearted. Maybe he thought that the clips that were "embarrassing" of Timothy were really something we should see as quirky and respect. Or then again, maybe not.
ReplyDeleteI didn't take the "personal" scenes as disrespectful or anything. Like you said, it was a way to express his thoughts and feelings while he was alone. I would think that we would all sound a little crazy after spending that much time in the wilderness. I don't think he ever completely lost sight of the human world, but he seemed to be happiest away from it. I do not really consider that "crazy." I don't know.. We all have things that make us happy, and his happiness came from something very different. I find nothing wrong with it!
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