New Persona

So true. He was different than Ben Kilham. Tredwell's friend said, "He had a need to develop a new persona for himself." Tredwell himself said at one point, "Thanks to the animals for giving me a life. Before I had no life. I promised the bears if I help them, would they look over me? I stopped drinking--it was the miracle of animals." All these things seem to support your contention he was "crawy," and before viewing the movie, I had dismissed him as such. But now I have tempered that a bit. I just see him as someone who had no sense of himself or any self fullfillment, so channeled all that need toward animals. If people didn't "recognize him," perhaps animals would? I see this childlike, but very desperate need that he turns to animals for, and of course, can't get from them. Maybe?