Bear Maze Tragedy

Bear Maze Tragedy (Based on the film Grizzly Man)

An Outlook of the lifestyle and death of Timothy Treadwell

The general idea I had when going into watching this film was completely opposite of what this movie was even about. I thought the film to be about war and the term grizzly used as slang to confer strength and primitive accounts of a soldier. When the film actually had grizzly bears on the screen I knew this movie was going to be like no other I had seen before.

While watching, I first thought the theme was all about bears, slowly I realized that this is not just about grizzly bears, it is about Timothy Treadwell. Tim is a well known activist who had lived with Grizzly bears for eight years in the Alaskan bear mazes and grazing territory. His objective was to protect these predominant animals and keep them safe from man.

As I watched Treadwell and listened closely to the narrator I came to find out that this plot was also on the death of Tim and his colleague Amie Huguenard. The two had been taken from this world by the one thing they were trying to protect, a grizzly bear. Many people found this to be treacherous and an outrage against what Tim had been trying to do in Alaska. They even felt that his work was foolish, dangerous and not regarded as credited.

After hearing both sides of what people thought of the incident the narrator seemed to put those opinions aside to mainly focus on why Tim was who he is. Going through family members, friends, ex-spouses, and colleagues it really came into effect that the entire film was all about him and not about bears at all. Bears are what he loved and he lived and died for them. It is a tragedy he left us so abruptly but in listening to the ones he loved I found out this is exactly what he wanted and would not want to change those events.