Grizzly Man - Perception, "Tainted" Perception

Perception, “tainted” perception. So I’m in first year, and a friend who I live with know was raving about this “grizzly man” documentary. I caught a scene of it, and in being slightly disappointed it wasn’t some old footage of Sasquatch, I held it in contempt. The little bit that I did watch, I saw Timothy Treadwell in a sentimental moment. While he is clearly upset with the death of a small fox by the side of the water, to me, walking in at that point, I thought he was a nut job. After viewing the film for the purposes of 286, I think I was right.
There were moments throughout the film where I though back to my original feelings, but upon seeing the scene with the dead fox, I remembered how I felt real well. I sounded like one of the pilots or the museum worker, who really criticizes and calls out what Treadwell did. I suppose it was a full spectrum view of Treadwell and his footage of himself which gave my feelings a fair chance. There is obvious much cinematic thought in how it is all put together by Herzog.
His techniques we discussed a bit, like letting the camera run were pretty interesting in the interview process. The doctor who had the job of sorting the bags of body parts, and Treadwell’s close friend Jewel each were subjects of this. Another was the museum curator, in which he (like the doctor) kind of look to the camera, look away, and look to the Herzog. I think a technique like this forces those speaking to think about the last things out of their mouth. They must be thinking to themselves “Does Werner want more?” or whatever it is they just spoke on. He is almost milking the comments out of him. A huge thing is, the voyeuristic gaze I think. Maybe perhaps why people enjoy the film in general is how well you get to know Treadwell. Did Grizzly Man win so many documentary awards because people want to see the life of a somewhat messed up, crazy dude. “A True Story of a Life Gone Wild” is what reads on the movie poster, and Herzog creates this well.
What I think is funny is that, there’s crazy people all around the world. What if Treadwell didn’t have the option to film his summers for so many years, any story we hear of him, assuming we didn’t know him, would seem untrustworthy. How could we determine how crazy we think he is? Or how much reason he was using when he started this lifestyle?
The kicker is, in terms of perception, every director and their methods change what every member of the audience will think. So other than the widespread viewing of Grizzly Man to get the story of Treadwell out, Herzog’s inclusions, exclusions of his life can hardly touch the fact that he was eaten by a bear. He was eccentric and extremely unique individual, and if there was never a movie made but you knew him, or of him, then that's all that should matter.
We're all just the audience, the paying customers to know Timothy Treadwell.
That's my piece on perception . . . I don’t look down on Grizzly Man. I think it is a lot better and there’s more of a point to it than I originally thought. I just kind of wanted to talk about how I felt like I didn’t want to be classified with those so outwardly opposed to Treadwell’s work .