grizzly man

‘I had been in the jungle’ says Werner Herzog at one point and you get the feeling there might be more to that statement than meets the eye.

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The way the mother unconsciously moves her dead son’s teddy bear’s paws as she speaks, as though she has the same instinct to connect with these creatures as he had.

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Timothy had a boogie board with a union jack on it – does this reveal anything? If so what?

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The sight of two bears fighting one another, a vision of the immense ferocity that is innate to the natural world, one of the most terrifying things you could ever see.

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The laconic, grizzled narrator counterpointing the films’s ebullient, unhinged protagonist. Both of them filmmakers, both capable of being seduced by the call of the wild. One a moptop fatalist, the other a steely survivor. Begging the question which is the real grizzly man of the title?