When you read the news in the evening...

...even though you said you were going to ignore the inauguration, and then you're all agitated, so for some insane reason you decide to watch a documentary about a guy who gets eaten alive by a grizzly bear (Grizzly Man* [good review]), 

and then all night your brain's going:

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*I'm not usually a fan of Werner Herzog, but I would recommend Grizzly Man---just not when you're feeling emotionally fragile.

The grizzly man, Tim Treadwell, provides a good balance for Herzog's own intense, romantic attraction to nature. Herzog says, "I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony but chaos, hostility and murder."
Treadwell is the opposite. 
He knew the bears were extremely dangerous, nonetheless thinks he can live in harmony with them as a "kind warrior," and gives them names such as Mr. Chocolate.

Herzog says toward the end of the film, while showing Treadwell's footage of the bear that probably killed him not long after:

"For Timothy Treadwell, this bear was a friend, a savior.
What haunts me is that in all the faces of all the bears Treadwell filmed, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the bears. And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food."

Food is the thing. As long as the grizzlies had plenty of salmon, they left Treadwell alone. But in his thirteenth year he stayed longer than usual, past the time when the salmon run, and the food available was him. 


Review in the Guardian about how unintentionally funny this film is. (Yes, until it's not.)