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How I want to spend Summer Vacation: Don’t Look Back, and Grizzly Man.
On the spring semester of college most students wonder about what they would do for the summer vacation. Two documentary films Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005) and Don’t Look Back (Pennebaker, 1967) present possibilities. Perhaps they would take off and go out to the wilderness such as in Grizzly Man or take their band on a world tour such as in Don’t Look Back. For the thought experiment to be valid even the most benign exposure to music would qualify and the most mundane exposure to anthropology could work. What are the lifestyle choices of these living situations? Two films present the possibility of living an alternative lifestyle in a summer vacation: Grizzly Man, and Don’t Look Back.
Both films present a brief time of occurrences. Although Grizzly Man may represent more than one season spent in the wilderness they seemingly don’t spend all times of the year in the wilderness at the same location and their time is cut short because they didn’t survive. In Don’t Look Back the summer European tour lasts for the run of concerts and then they return to the states in tatters worst for wear unclear if they survived or not. Both films represent finite periods of time that appear brief and don’t last.
Both films have a male and female couple. In Grizzly Man the man and women are boyfriend and girlfriend. In Don’t Look Back Bob Dylan and Joan Baez are not a couple and don’t even appear to be dating and Joan Baez doesn’t even seem remotely interested in Bob Dylan as a man. We see Bob Dylan fending for himself for women possibly being provided with female companions along the way. Both films have a couple of a man and women as a pair but not both as boyfriend and girlfriend.
Both films represent male protagonists leading their women in to oblivion. In Grizzly Man the male protagonist explains that he essentially knows everything about bears before he gets eaten alive by one. The protagonist in Grizzly Man could not have been more wrong about bears. In Don’t Look Back Bob Dylan explains to a Time magazine reporter that he essentially knows everything in omnipotence about reporting before we realize that he has ended his musical career by destroying his credibility with the press not to mention that AOL Time Warner would eventually turn out to be his record label. Bob Dylan could not have said anything more badly than he did. Both women in the films look on helplessly while everything in their world is destroyed.
In Grizzly Man the most basic forms of survival are seen. We see in hand held camera mode adventurers scratching out a living much in the same way primitive man did during period just after the last ice age. A third party is narrating the film clips of the camper and his girlfriend’s home movies and their attempts to befriend wild grizzly bears in a confidential location in the wilderness. It is a cautionary tale because the primary protagonists in the film do not survive. The film Grizzly Man presents the basic forms of survival.
In Don’t Look Back a traveling lifestyle is seen. We see in hand held camera mode musical adventurers Bob Dylan and Joan Biaz scratching out a living in hotel rooms as ordinary people in extraordinary situations. There is no narration of the film clips but we are left observing Bob Dylan explain himself to a world of hostile onlookers who don’t get the meaning of Al Ginsberg poetry. It is a cautionary tale because we are uncertain if the protagonists Bob Dylan or Joan Baez survive in a world unclear on talent whatsoever. The film Don’t Look Back presents the traveling lifestyle as a form of survival.
If one were to look at the films Don’t Look Back and Grizzly Man as alternative choices for how to spend a summer vacation they would be seen as cautionary tales because the occupants of the documentary films don’t survive. Grizzly Man shows an extended camping trip. Don’t Look Back is somewhat of a travel diary. The protagonists in Grizzly Man don’t survive because they were eaten. In Don’t Look Back Bob Dylan is given enough rope to hang himself and he eventually does with the Time magazine reporter in a clear soliloquy of what-not-to-do in a worst-case-scenario. It is clear that Bob Dylan has gotten very bad press coverage ever since the incident. In these pairing of men and women it is the men that lead their women in to oblivion full charge in these snapshots of brief time intervals.
editor's note: Bob Dylan seems to have done very well for himslef since the film, even with truthfull insight in to the press. C.B.
Bibliography
Pennebaker, D.A., 1967. Don’t Look Back (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061589/)
Herzog, Werner, 2005. Grizzly Man (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427312/)
