Grizzley Man - Film Reflection

In the film, Timothy Treadwell displayed many side of himself. He sometimes praise himself as a warrior, a master and destined to save these bears. Indeed, he is a warrior because he has the courage to think that he can live with the bear. His faith was so strong that made him willing to sacrifice his live to the wild. He believed that it is his responsibility to educate others about these animals and he did went to many schools to teach the children. I respect him for that because I also want to do something like educating others and make a change, and I know it is not a easy job to educate others. Timothy is a very sentimental person, he even felt really sad when he saw a bee on the flower. If it was me, I would not even notice the bee on the flower and feel sad about how its death.

Timothy's belief is both radical but also non-radical. It is radical in a way that people might think he deserves the death; non-radical because that is what he believed in. To him, he rather die if that can evoke others to protect the bears and the nature. I also see the rule of fittest survive in this movie. When the bear attacked Timothy, it is destined that he will die. Nature is sometimes emotionless. Only the fittest can survive... something inside the bear clicked its mind, and decided "that's it! I'm going make him as my food". Again, this is another lesson of what the reality of nature looks like.

Can humans become a part of the wild? I questioned the possibility of whether human can live with the animals when I saw the scene of Timothy patting on the fox while talking to the camera. The fox seem to like Timothy because the fox showed no sign of resisting. This question also made me think of the movie "Instinct". In the Instinct, the old man lived with the chimpanzees in the wild for quite a while. Although this movie is fictional, but seems like there is a possibility that humans may become part of the wild community.