Tomorrow, Friday the 3rd, at 8:00pm EST, the Discovery Channel will be showing the Werner Herzog 'documentary' called Grizzly Man, about a Timothy Treadwell who lived frequently with grizzly bears in Alaska and documented them--along with his girlfriend some times--until they met a, well, grizzly end you could say. This isn't your typical documentary. I've talked about Herzog before in my journal entries. He's not as interested in documenting objective truthes as he is in finding ecstatic ones. Thus, if you happen to watch it tomorrow (you know, if you got nothing better to do), I think you'll notice how strange it seems, blending factual footage with fictional or elaborated elements. This stuff goes beyond the "pseudo-documentaries" or "mockumentaries".
I have yet to see it myself, so that's where I'll be tuned tomorrow night. I know it's Herzog, I know a little bit about what goes in in the film, and I know that a lot of critic's circles awarded it best documentary of 2005.
I have yet to see it myself, so that's where I'll be tuned tomorrow night. I know it's Herzog, I know a little bit about what goes in in the film, and I know that a lot of critic's circles awarded it best documentary of 2005.