More4 tonight (24th Mar) 22:00 TRUE STORIES: GRIZZLY MAN

[Voley]

I guess that's why he chose to live in the wild?

With his girlfriend. Who got killed because of his stupidity.

 

[girasol]

With his girlfriend. Who got killed because of his stupidity.

He didn't force her to be there... She got killed because of her own stupidity.

 

[Voley]

You're right. But getting her to come / pretending to the camera that he was out there alone wasn't exactly 'dignified', was it?

And she ended up dead. Manic depressives that refuse to take their meds make their families lives hell.

 

[weltweit]

I reckon he was bi-polar.

The same thought ocurred to me.

 

[teuchter]

This is on again tonight if anyone's interested. 10pm more4.

 

[quimcunx]

Nope. Crying in our cups and do they bat an eyelid?

It's hard to believe that they could switch on their tellyboxes, think to themselves, ''ooh look, a programme about some nutter who gets his head bitten off by bears'' and not follow that thought by, ''bet you quimmy and strumps would like that. I'll bump that thread.''

This is on again tonight if anyone's interested. 10pm more4.

Thank you. But under the circumstances (a nap) a text would have been more useful.

Bah.

 

[Orang Utan]

i can find out when it's next on if you want?

 

[weltweit]

I just watched it again. The last time I didn't see all of it.

He was for sure unbalanced, like he was defending the Grizzlies, against what? there was no poaching and hardly any hunting.

There was that moment when he thought he had brought the rain, thats unbalanced.

But spending too much time on your own you can get like that pretty easily.

 

[Strumpet]

I saw it!! Well 3/4 of it.... Thanks to the other thread started tonight!

Sad, weird little man.....odd. Fascinating to think it's all real. Bizarre.

I would have put money on him being gay and having mummy issues.

I thought that.

The coroner in particular was blatantly a frustrated serial killer. His exchange with the ex girlfriend was really strange and awkward and then when he was describing the death with a weird glint in his eye.

Yep I thought same.

 

[Sadken]

Into the Wild is a great film too, I fancy watching that again soon; it's been long enough now, cos it's a bit intense.

 

[chainsaw cat]

The coroner in particular was blatantly a frustrated serial killer. His exchange with the ex girlfriend was really strange and awkward and then when he was describing the death with a weird glint in his eye.

Every Coroner I've ever met has been a fucking weirdo except one. Fucking weirdos the lot of 'em (except one).

One mad bastard was giggling like a schoolgirl all the way through the inquest and kept getting the dead bloke's name wrong. Upset the family no end.

It wasn't a bear killing though. The dead guy had fallen off a fork lift truck in a potato box. Not quite so enthralling is it?

But that's Lincolnshire for you. No bears to speak of. They have to work with what comes to hand.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

"Grizzly Man"? it should be renamed 'the stupid guy with the crunchy head'

 

[Upchuck]

I watched the show and what I saw was a sad self obsessed man who wanted a life he never got (Hollywood stardom), developed a chip on his shoulder, fawned and ponced around in the bush with some bears and foxes, acquired a girlfriend perhaps for bait, and got killed in a place he should never have been. The bears are 1 up on this one.

 

[Louloubelle]

I thought Treadmill was much more unpleasant and much less interesting than Herzog realised. I couldn't detect any interest in the animals just grandiose self-obsession and impulsive self-destruction. The only times Treadmill showed real emotion was anger at the park for restricting his behaviour and anger at tourists encroaching on his turf. It didn't surprise me in the least that he had a history of run ins with the law or that he was a compulsive liar or that he would turn up in court to watch criminals being evicted. I do agree that he made some interesting footage but that was more a product of him meticulously manipulating his own self-image.

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Well not entirely that, in that I thought he was disturbed and vulnerable too.

It's not at all uncommon for people who have serious mental illnesses to closely identify with dangerous animals and to believe that they have special friendship with them as the mauling by lions of Ben Silcock and Margaret King illustrates.

What I found really fascinating was seeing the photos of his mother when he was little. He seemed to have become his childhood mother, same hairstyle and look, presumably the same voice.

He seemed to me to be a man with a lot of unconscious aggression (I sense towards his mother and to women generally) who actually knew he would be eaten by bears and wanted it to happen.

I feel very angry with how he treated his "girlfriend".

If he wanted to punish his mother by killing himself then that's up to him but putting that poor girl in such a dangerous situation is incredibly selfish.

 

[Louloubelle]

i can find out when it's next on if you want?

I really, really want to see this incredible documentary again The Last Roar of the Taiga?

Highly recommended for people who love terrifying documentaries about human animal conflicts in cold icy settings, a really complex and disturbing film with an incredible ending.

Is there any way I can find out when it will next be broadcast?

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It looks like it's also been released under the names

Last Roar of the Tiger

"Conflict Tiger" (director's cut)

and
Maneater: Siberian Tiger

 

[Orang Utan]

Grizzly Man is next on on the 10th of September at 11pm on Channel 4

 

[Orang Utan]

I really, really want to see this incredible documentary again The Last Roar of the Taiga?

Highly recommended for people who love terrifying documentaries about human animal conflicts in cold icy settings, a really complex and disturbing film with an incredible ending.

Is there any way I can find out when it will next be broadcast?

ask the bbc - they'll be able to tell you if there is a planned repeat transmission in the next few months or so

 

[Louloubelle]

ask the bbc - they'll be able to tell you if there is a planned repeat transmission in the next few months or so

thanks

do you know what this means?

http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Last_Roar_of_the_Tiger#ed2k_Links

It looks like a link to an avi file but I can't get it to work