Grizzly Man- Anisha Payne

Grizzly Man is a documentary exploring the life of Timothy Treadwell through his footage. Timothy Treadwell recorded himself and his experience living in the environment of grizzly bears. Timothy's purpose of this video diary was to get people to understand that if one would create a bond between a grizzly bear then they wouldn't want to kill animals for their fur.

This film would be considered a Self-Reflective, and Narrative Documentary because it follows the story of Timothy to his death. The cause and effect rule applies to this documentary because if Timothy created these video diaries of his experience with the grizzlies then his message wouldn't have been portrayed that strong. In the end, Timothy died trying to protect the lives of the grizzly bears. Because Timothy was so confident in his theory of becoming a bear in order to get to know them, he died because of it. This documentary was also a Sefl-Reflective piece due to Timothy's continuous diaries of his day. 'Grizzly Man' is a Narrative Documentary because the doc. tells another message beneath Timothy's initial message.

I found that this documentary had a very balanced perspective to his decisions. For instance, the audience got a look through Timothy's perspective, various people that don't agree with his cause, some that has the same feelings towards animals and those that were for him until his death. Throughout the documentary their was a narrator to help direct the documentary to its destination. Their were some talking heads, but majority of the film was b-roll footage.