From a Certain Point of View

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"Grizzly Man" Reconsidered

"Grizzly Man" Reconsidered

This great documentary is one I watch frequently, and it never stops finding new meanings

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May 04, 2023
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You don’t usually get an artist’s explicit statement of beliefs within their artwork. In fact, that’s exceedingly rare.

However, about 70% of the way through Werner Herzog’s 2005 documentary Grizzly Man, Herzog drops this bomb on us, through his classic voiceover narration:

“I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but [is instead]…

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