Walking with Giants & the Grizzly man
By Avid Mozaffarian (05/20/10 11:38:38)
In “Walking with the Giants” the two researcher couple took on the task of reintroducing 3 bear cubs to the wild on an Island called Kamchatca off of Russia. Their minimal interference with the cub’s process of collecting food and learning how to hunt was a very positive way. I do wish they would of kept the Island secure of hunting bears from hunters by getting help from the government and restricting some laws. The researchers interaction with the other bears on the Island for the researchers might have been positive, but from the bears perspective it had a negative effect. They allowed the bears to trust humans to some extend and that made it easier for hunters to get closer to the bears and hunt them.
On the other side of the spectrum, in “Grizzly Man” the same basic concept was created. I do believe his interaction with the bears for such a long period of time could have been a positive step forward for human interaction and understanding of bears to know what each noise they make or jester they do means. His move to stay on the Island longer was not a good move. To stay in the territory and deal with unfamiliar bears was a ‘stupid’ move. The releasing of all the films and documentation of the work into the hands of a person that was not on the same page as he was and the creation of the documentary the film maker made, in my opinion only made the guy who spent 13 years living with bears, look like a weirdo and his words not taken seriously. He might had done what he did, living with bears for so long, to make himself feel better, but at the same time he also did an extraordinary and amazing act of bonding with bears and getting close to them. The article interview written by his old friend clearly states the same facts and tries to prove to us that he is not the crazy, weird person that he is being portrayed as in the film documentary.


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