Episode 71 – Grizzly Man (2005)

Bill and Ted discuss Werner Herzog’s 2005 documentary “Grizzly Man” largely assembled from footage shot by troubled aspiring actor Timothy Treadwell for an unrealized TV Nature programme interspersed with interviews featuring people connected to the man and/or to the tragic death of Treadwell and his girlfriend at the time. Asking questions about the nature of nature and man’s relationship to it the film is deadly serious, uncomfortable and unnerving with surprising moments of pitch black dark humour. Herzog presents a puzzling and unexpected documentary experience which stays with the viewer long after the credits roll.

If you enjoyed this film, you may also like these Ted’s Picks: Project Grizzly (1996), The Edge (1997), The Revenant (2015)