People. Don't you realize that this movie is a HOAX? I saw it when it came out and had a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach. Then I saw it again last night on Animal Planet (3 minutes of show, then 4 minutes of ads, dragging it out to an incredible 3 hours: was Werner in on the profits?), wondering if I could overcome that sense of doubt. At about 15 minutes in, I'd had it. I said it out loud: "HOAX! HOAX!" Someone compared it to a Christopher Guest satire. The "friends" and "family" seemed so scripted and downright weird, with that same spaced-out look in their eyes. It was "Best in Show" with bears. Really - wanting a watch that was ripped off a dead man's arm that was bitten off by a bear. This is disgusting and horrible. But the "girl friend" acted so honored. And who was the weird chick with the braids? There was just too much strangeness going on here. Audiences laughed but felt guilty about it. Well, they laughed because this is a SATIRE, and SATIRE is COMEDY! But WH is such a master manipulator that he purposely jerked people around and made them feel guilty for finding it funny. The so-called recording of the attack never existed: it's a device to tantalyze and appeal to the very worst in human nature. Hertzog knew that people would have loved to actually see them getting ripped apart and eaten. Sort of a horrible gory version of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. But the thing is, it didn't happen! That's the key to this. These were actors who had been coached in exactly what to say and how to say it, riding that fine line. I could list probably 50 cases of things that didn't ring true (i.e. when his Mom showed his big teddy, I groaned, but then later at the end they show the same teddy in his tent. Gee, you mean that REALLY WAS his bear? Maybe Hertzog REALLY WANTED US TO THINK SO. SO. . .did TT really die that way? I keep thinking he'll emerge in a few years, going, nyah, nyah, I fooled you, and writing a best-seller about it. Or else he's locked up somewhere, clutching his teddy bear. ("This is Mr. Chocolate!").
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