The Irony of It All

I was watching this show on the discovery channel looking at the film Grizzly Man (2005). The movie looks at the life of Timothy Treadwell. He lived unarmed amongst the grizzly bears in an Alaskan national park. He ventured really close to them, talking to them and even touching them. I can admire his dedication, but at the same time I couldn't help but think that he is absolutely nuts to be that close to the biggest meat eating predator around! Often he camped for months alone at the park, so I guess one's sanity does have to come into question at some point. The clips showed him talking lovingly to the bears like they were children and he even named each bear. He would greet them by name, "hello freckles, are you fishing? What a lovely fish you have there...take care my precious!" That alone was enough to make me laugh, even though my inner good girl was telling me to shut up because this man is no longer with us. I thought he was homosexual, and at some points in the program thought he might be into beastiality too. You just never know...alone in the parks with all those bears (Im not judging, just saying. You can do as you wish if that's your thing). I'm sure the man had desires! But I was wrong. He brought his girlfriend Amie with him on one trip, their last ever trip. I can't stress the amount of time he spend on his beloved bears and the fighting he did to keep them safe from poachers and to share their beauty. He felt more at home with the bears then he did in any city. Maybe he felt like an outcast in society, and somehow he felt loved amongst the bears. I'll never know. He videotaped and recorded a lot of his adventures with these bears on his trips, and the movie is composed largely of his footage, which is incredible to say the least. Timothy Treadwell unfortunately didn't live to see the film made. On that last camping trip where he took Amie amongst the bears, he was mauled in his tent and both him and Amie were savagely attacked and eaten. Sad, but that's what I call ironic!