Grizzly Man Essay

Grizzly ManIn Grizzly Manamong the controversy stirred by the behavior of Treadwell, the central idea expressed in the film is that the nature is indeed indifferent and man should not cross the borderline between man and nature.Wild animals are not friends of human. Treadwell put wholly his heart to the cause of protecting the bears. He repeated in his films for many times that he loved them and he was willing to die for them. He tended to impute them like many people do to the dogs and cats, but he forgot they were not those tame pets. He touched bears in a way that count onmed to irritate them. He maybe had a belief and confidence that the bears also saw him as their friend and treated him differently. But in fact they didnt. In the narrators opinion, the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, hostility and murder. Treadwell spent 13 years with the bears and he thought it was a wonderful and simpler world, he even wanted to get going a bear, but in reality it is a hash world. In those big and ferocious bears eyes, they see only food and they never regard him as a friend. The narrator tells this observation at the endfrom all the faces, all the bears that Treadwell ever filmed, I discovered no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.There is an ultimate invisible line between bear and human. The line has been respected by native people and the majority of the public. They know it is a very different world from the one where human lives. when you cross the line, you pay the price. the curator of the Kodiaks Alutiiq Museum mentioned this principle that has been strictly observed for 7000 years. He doesnt agree with Treadwells behavior of staying too intimately with bears. He believes that he has crossed the invisible boundary, that is, the line which has been mentioned above. So even if Treadwell was repeatedly declaring that his of import purpose was to protect bears from poachers, he didnt real ize that his behavior was an other(a) kind of invasion of their habitat and he was doing a lot of damage to them. He got close to those bears crazily and in un undue way.He violated the reasonable rule of the park that one should maintain at least 100 yards of maintain from the bears. He lived with them and tried to make the bears get used to the existence of human, which was very dangerous for bears, and so on. As the narrator says in the movie, the best protection for the animals is that of their habitat. both action of protecting animals by invading their habitat is not persuasive and of course substructuret do any good to them. Like Treadwell, during his 13 years, he didnt carry bears any practical protection except serving them a delicious dinner with his and his girlfriends bodies.Life of PiThe view presented in this movie is that human and ferocious animals can co-exist peacefully if human can meet the survival needs of the animals and nature can give human hope and direc tion to survive.Darwins theorythe survival of the fittest, emphasizes the fierce and somewhat ruthless struggle of survival among the species and the individuals. It is indeed true in almost cases. But in Life of Pi, it describes a picture of human and animals co-existence in a more harmonious way and proves that their struggle and contradiction are not so irreconcilable. In this movie, Pi was taught at his childhood by his father, that the animals, esp, the tiger, etc are not his friends. So at the first of the drift, Pi didnt intend to co-exist with the tiger. He had had the chance to kill it. But his virtuous nature didnt allow himself to do so. So he made the final finality to co-exist with this ferocious animal. He supplied the tiger with food and fresh water to survive so that he himself would not become the dinner of it. The threat to each other and the certain kind of peaceful co-existence helped them persevere to be saved at last. Even Pi himself admitted that the fear o f Richard Parker kept me alert. I wouldnt survive without Richard Parker. homophile actually should be grateful to nature. Nature provides them with the animals living in it and therefore sustains humans life. In the movie, nature is indifferent by the storm which caused the disaster of the ships sink and took away so many peoples lives. But on the other side, during the hopeless drift on the sea, nature also gave them food in the sea. It led him to the island when Pi had already lost his hope for survival, which made him regain the hope for life. Nature gave these seemingly coincidences to make for Pis survival from this disaster.Which kind of view do you agree with? Comparing two different views presented in these two movies, the former is more persuasive and reasonable. discourse the relations between human and nature, people should always remember that nature is indeed indifferent and keep a proper distance away from nature, particularly the animals. Any human action which int erferes with their natural life in an undue way will surely provoke the revenge of nature and pay a price for what they do.Guess of teachers view Teacher may agree that nature is indifferent but to some extent human and can get along well with each other unless both of them dont cross the borderline and do harm to the other. Because America is a verdant which pays much attention to environment protection. They dont encourage too much intimacy with nature for they know the ruthless and indifferent nature, so they do a good job in establishing the wildlife reserves. But on the other hand, they love to be close to nature.