Movie: Grizzly Man

Herzog still has it. In fact, has it more. His attachment to this
guy is one of pure paternal affection, of the kind that he had for
Bruno S. Only here the guy is this weird Hollywood-inflected loner/
outcast, and the amazing thing is, it's not at all difficult to see
him having become a Woody Harrelson (to whom he apparently lost out
in casting for "Cheers"). Onto his story Herzog is able to graft
very organically his vision of the diabolical chaotic world the
romantic finds himself struggling for meaning in. But it's just a
perfect find for Herzog--it's like found art. This guy is in fact
pushing something like a death wish in his drive to become one with
the bears, and you sense the meaning of his salvation from alcoholism
in these charged moments of rapture after his close encounters. As
in Stroszek and some others, the overlay is very much in the vein
that Errol Morris taps, juxtaposing him against uncomprehending
others, Americans passing judgment in their middle-American scripted
ways, or casting him as something of the idol of misfits, but the
difference is that I don't think Herzog really ever has contempt for
these people, I think his compassion is true, while Morris is
savagely bitter (though often uproarious too). Herzog seems not to
have that sense of irony. In keeping with his characterization of
America as "the most exotic place on earth."