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I'd been putting off watching this one for several years but lots of people i know love this doc. I grew up in a mountain town where if a bear got into somebody's yard or garbage, or got too used to humans, it would often be euthanized. And so we have this guy who thinks he doesn't count as "people" and it's fine for him to go bother the bears too close, and setting a terrible example by talking to schools. I am with the Alutiiq curator on this one. In a lot of ways it's extremely similar to Fire Within in the way Herzog frames it, but at least the volcanoes will be fine. It was harder to feel the same awe at Treadwell's footage knowing what he was doing. But man, that coroner was waiting for his moment wasn't he? It's like he was made for this