Grizzly Man

What I found interesting about Grizzly Man was not so much his actions within the forest, becasue having seen them filmed they seemed reasonable and the animals seemed receptive. What I found most surprising was the responses of some of the people interviewed to talk about him, they seemed genuinely unsupportive and really very critical of his actions. It seemed to me the animals welcomed him for the most part, I didn't think he necessarily tried to become a bear like many of those interviewed did, but he more so imitated a bear culture just as you would imitate a foriegn country you were visiting to fit in. Its like in chapter 7 of Animals and Why They Matter, Midgely talks about this misconception people have that animals like tiger, lions, bears or whatever just murder for the fun of it. People are no different, we kill to survive. Timothy Treadwell said it himself, he knew that if it came down to a life or death situation for the bears that they certainly would not hesitate to kill him. Judging by the way he talked he did not seem to frightened, but really more understanding that this was the nature of the beast. I don't think that he would have wanted the bear that killed him to die for what it did. He spent his life in a mutual relationship between himself and I think for him to be eaten by bears was maybe the only way his films could have recieved the attention they did. I think he would consider himself a martyr for the bears rather than a victim of them.