Summing up Britain
In an article about the Werner Herzog documentary "Grizzly Man", which I'm sure you've all heard of/seen:
"Timothy Treadwell's problem was that he saw wild nature as essentially friendly; Herzog sees it as essentially hostile. Where Treadwell saw the signs of personality in the eyes of the bears, Herzog sees, 'only the overwhelmingly blank stare...[and] a half-bored interest in food.: It's a bleak vision, pitting Treadwell's American optimism against Herzog's German pessimism, and sometimes during Grizzly Man you catch yourself wanting to believe in the former: those bears seem awfully cute. But then you remember how fast they can run, and how they can smell their next meal from nine miles away, and at this point British pragmatism kicks in. Go camping if you must. But what's wrong with the Lake District?"
oooh, it really is the little things...
"Timothy Treadwell's problem was that he saw wild nature as essentially friendly; Herzog sees it as essentially hostile. Where Treadwell saw the signs of personality in the eyes of the bears, Herzog sees, 'only the overwhelmingly blank stare...[and] a half-bored interest in food.: It's a bleak vision, pitting Treadwell's American optimism against Herzog's German pessimism, and sometimes during Grizzly Man you catch yourself wanting to believe in the former: those bears seem awfully cute. But then you remember how fast they can run, and how they can smell their next meal from nine miles away, and at this point British pragmatism kicks in. Go camping if you must. But what's wrong with the Lake District?"
oooh, it really is the little things...