Grizzly Man

I think it's a textbook definition of irony.  I watched it in utter amazement that someone could be so unbelievably dense.  He even made a comment at one point to the effect that, "People don't sleep in that area without dying,"  all while pointing to that area...where his camp was set up!!!  I watched with no sympathy, but for his girlfriend who died as an innocent, albeit equally foolish for not knowing better, bystander.  Hell, he might have had a better chance of survival swimming around the tip of South Africa in a Sirloin Speedo.  It's one thing to have a chance encounter with a Grizzly in the wilderness and another to do what he did.  I was, however, very impressed by a lot of the photos they showed at the end of the movie.

Dan

Just watched it the other day. I thought Herzog did an amazing job with compiling the footage and telling the story. The most gripping point was when he was listening to the audio of the attack, asked Jewel to turn it off, and told her she must never listen to it, and should destroy the tape (although there was a sick twisted side of me that was like "hey, I wanna hear it". Uck.)

I also thought it was amazing that they had left for the season, then Timmy decided to return, and the poor girlfriend went too. I also got the surreal sense like he knew something would happen (I don't mean that he planned it, per se, but the way he remains in the frame in his last segment of film, and the way that the only time his girlfriend is on the film is right at the end... weird). That could be my impression, however, because of how the film-maker/narrator phrased his telling of the story.

Did you watch the extra on the DVD about how they composed the music for the film on the fly? It was long, but it was pretty cool.