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2013-03-20 19:57:48
Struggle to Live - As Wild As Animal
Structure:
1. The discussion and judgement of Timothy's behavior. Timothy as an crazy grizzly man.
2. Timothy as a filmmaker.
3. Timothy as a performer, an actor. "Stardom".
4. Amie, who added mysteries to this story.
5. Reasons for driving Timothy into the wild - the interview of his parents and friends. This is about his childhood and youth.
6. The killing of bear. Economics (as the interviewee said, the bears in Alaska are kept a healthy population, and the poaching are not serious). Timothy "fuck"s the park service. "He's fighting civilization itself".
Footage:
1. Re-makes of Timothy and Amie's footage.
2. Director Werner's interviews on multiple people who know Timothy or his story.
3. Maps and other documents.
Method of interview:
Fixed shoot, and hand-hold shoot that pans around and keeps moving back and forward towards the interviewed subjects.
Critics:
This is a very radical documentary. Timothy is despaired because of the civilization, and he's rather die in the wild. He is a dramatic idealist, even his name and background are not real. He creats for himself a theatrical second life. He is more alive living in the nature with the dangerous animals. His inspirational emotion shows. With Timothy's lens, the audiences can get the "experience" to feel his presence - as if we were there with him. Through the extraordinary story of Timothy who lives his life to the utmost, the director drew his point in the end - "It is not so much a look at wild nature, as it is an insight into ourselves, our nature." And instead of harmony, the nature is in dynamic, cruel chaos. Or rather to say, it is a harmony based on chaos. The cruel part of human beings is no difference from the animals' instinct - a struggle to live. This is fucking dark but true.
Quotes:
"I have no life. Now I have a life."
"If I don't come back. That's the way I want. That's the way I want to go."
Others:
1. He talks about his love of girls. In his opinion, his life will be less tough if he was a gay.
2. I suppose the movie Into the Wild is based on Timothy's story?
1. The discussion and judgement of Timothy's behavior. Timothy as an crazy grizzly man.
2. Timothy as a filmmaker.
3. Timothy as a performer, an actor. "Stardom".
4. Amie, who added mysteries to this story.
5. Reasons for driving Timothy into the wild - the interview of his parents and friends. This is about his childhood and youth.
6. The killing of bear. Economics (as the interviewee said, the bears in Alaska are kept a healthy population, and the poaching are not serious). Timothy "fuck"s the park service. "He's fighting civilization itself".
Footage:
1. Re-makes of Timothy and Amie's footage.
2. Director Werner's interviews on multiple people who know Timothy or his story.
3. Maps and other documents.
Method of interview:
Fixed shoot, and hand-hold shoot that pans around and keeps moving back and forward towards the interviewed subjects.
Critics:
This is a very radical documentary. Timothy is despaired because of the civilization, and he's rather die in the wild. He is a dramatic idealist, even his name and background are not real. He creats for himself a theatrical second life. He is more alive living in the nature with the dangerous animals. His inspirational emotion shows. With Timothy's lens, the audiences can get the "experience" to feel his presence - as if we were there with him. Through the extraordinary story of Timothy who lives his life to the utmost, the director drew his point in the end - "It is not so much a look at wild nature, as it is an insight into ourselves, our nature." And instead of harmony, the nature is in dynamic, cruel chaos. Or rather to say, it is a harmony based on chaos. The cruel part of human beings is no difference from the animals' instinct - a struggle to live. This is fucking dark but true.
Quotes:
"I have no life. Now I have a life."
"If I don't come back. That's the way I want. That's the way I want to go."
Others:
1. He talks about his love of girls. In his opinion, his life will be less tough if he was a gay.
2. I suppose the movie Into the Wild is based on Timothy's story?
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