Excellent movie. What a crazy guy. Literally certifiable. The documentary brought me a bit of the eerie feeling of The Blair Witch Project, it felt like something really screwed up was always about to happen.
In the documentary, Timothy Treadwell is an actor turned environmentalist who tries to bring attention to the endangered grizzly bears in Alaska. He spends 13 summers with the bears in the wild, just hanging out. Seriously wicked.
Now to our gay movie review. When Timothy is rambling to the camera about his troubled relationship with women, he mentions it would be much nicer if he was gay. He does say the reason for that is that gay men can hook up easily, in restaurants, truck stops etc. Well, I'll take it. I don't see a problem in that stereotype actually. Gay men, in general, do have it easier in the dating scene, so what's the problem with that? To me, it's clearly the men part that's doing it's thing, not exactly the gay part. You put two eager gay guys together and nothing can stop them. Straighties can envy me as much as they want, and I'll like it. Of course, not all gay men hook up that easily, and Timothy actually acknowledges it. Super cute in his own lunatic way.
Go Herzog (the director and narrator)! Go Timothy! Go Bears!
I can totally see what you mean, Jimbo.
Posted by: Queer Beacon | May 02, 2006 at 06:08 PM
Treadwell gave me mega-gay vibes...I think he was totally gay but couldn't handle it and funneled his unspent sexual energy towards his passion for [real] bears. And they loved him back.
Posted by: jimbo | May 02, 2006 at 04:35 PM
I'm glad you reviewed this, because I thought the gay content in this film was particularly fascinating. The sort of ambiguity, and the way Treadwell handled it, was unlike any other film I've seen.
Posted by: EL | Apr 30, 2006 at 08:28 PM