I just discovered the Notebook Layout in Microsoft Word for Mac. The formatting capabilities are amazing and functionable; I had no trouble taking fabulous notes while watching Grizzly Man.
Herzog's piece of Timothy Treadwell shows the beauty that can happen simply by accident. The narratives overlap and interact with each other; Treadwell is creating a documentary narrative while also (perhaps unintentionally) forming another narrative about himself. The openness, meditation, and self-reflection that we see in Treadwell is striking. Herzog overlaps his own narrative voice on this footage, complicating Treadwell, who is often portrayed as merely crazy. Quite a beautiful film and one that is probably superficially rejected on several obvious premises.
I think through this, there's a lot to be said about animalism or hyper-anthropomorphism. The binary between a civilized world and a wild one is blurred through explorations such as Treadwell's. Regardless of opinions on righteousness or harmfulness, Herzog stretches his film to carve out this blurred space.
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