Grizzly Man is a documentary about Timothy Treadwell. Treadwell lived with wild grizzly bears and documented his life with these bears. Grizzly Man takes the footage along with other interviews to tell the story of Treadwell. His life was different than any other, and the film shows it by showing how he acted with the bears. Grizzly Man exemplifies a reflexive and performative mode, by showing the viewer what life is like living with bears, and showing footage filmed by Treadwell himself.
The main subject of the film is Timothy Treadwell, but the grizzly bears are what really grabs the viewers’ attention. It shows how the bears act in the wild. According to Nicholos, “reflexive mode calls attention to the assumption and convention that govern documentary filmmaking”. (31) There is hardly any footage of human interaction with grizzly bears. That’s what makes this film so unique is the extensive footage of humans and bears together in the wild. It shows the viewer something that no other film can show them. That’s what makes the documentary so unique is how it show reality to the viewer.
Timothy Treadwell films himself in the wild. There is not many people that would be willing to interact with the bears like he does. So there was not anyone to film him. “Performative mode emphasizes the subject or expressive aspect of the filmmaker’s own involvement with a subject.” (Nichols 32) The interaction with Treadwell is different than any other documentary because of how rare the interaction with his subjects is. Grizzly bears are a very dangerous animals and hard to film up close. He was able to get up close film them. Grizzly man is different than any other documentary, because the subjects that are being film don’t know what it means to act. The bears have no idea that they are being and don’t know what it means to be filmed, They act naturally and give a true repersentaion of reality. The reflexive mode shows the bears and their importance. The performative mode shows the human interaction between the bears and Treadwell.
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