After she shot the man, wouldn't it make sense to do a perimeter search of the wall at least around the area closest to where he appeared? The man came through the wall most likely, unless you believe he always lived inside, which is highly improbable. So even if she didn't care about leaving, she should've had an interest in security, cuz other deranged people might make it through the wall.
Comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable
I disagree with your assumption that he came through the wall. I think we've seen plenty of evidence the wall is impenetrable. Yet we know that she never went as far as she could in some directions because, as she says, she didn't want to wander more than a few days away from the lodge in any one direction. Far more plausible, imho, is that this man was another lone survivor inside the wall in some far reaches and had made his way to her site (having taken an opposite kind of spirit of survival than she had).
shareThen why was he dishevelled and psychotic, killing the bull for no reason? If he was inside the wall, he would've had a completely peaceful, natural environment to survive in.
Comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable
Not everyone responds to isolation in the same way. Prisoners who are left in solitary for too long become psychotic.
sharePlease, prisoners in solitary are not just dealing with social isolation. They're dealing with sensory deprivation, they're stuck in a tiny roof for probably 23 hours a day. Nobody reacts to isolation that way if they have complete freedom and choices in almost every other area of their lives. If he was that volatile, he would have blown up much earlier, not survived like 5 or 10 years just fine then randomly go psychotic.
Comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable
why was he dishevelled and psychotic, killing the bull for no reason?
Imagine for a second that he hasn't had all the luxuries she has for the last 2 1/2 years. House, heat, food, gun, company. All we know Is that he has the clothes on his back and an axe. For all we know he's been living In a cave alone eating roots, berries and forest animals he has sneaked up on and killed with that axe. He's wandering hungry In a place he hasn't been to yet thinking he's completely alone and happens on a steak dinner staring him In the face. He kills the calf on sight leaving the bigger one for another time. In the middle of his lottery winning hunting spree he's attacked by a dog. He kills It or lets It maul him, not a hard decision. He's giving It the finishing blows when suddenly he notices a woman with a gun. She instantly kills him. Understandably from her perspective.
shareHe was disheveled and psychotic because he'd spent two years alone in the Alps behind an invisible wall.
shareShe made it clear early on that she had no interest in leaving. She had numerous excuses for this, including being responsible for the animals.
She never explored past the first few barriers she encountered.
For whatever (unexplained) reason, she wanted to stay there.
I agree. So many logical inconsistencies, as why she didn't try to go around the wall, or at LEAST explore how far the wall extended. She also says that her interest in and love for the animals is what kept her from 'crawling on all fours like an animal'. She obviously preferred her 'huge prison' because she made little attempt to leave it. The direction the man came from, she never went toward as we saw buildings down there that she never visited.
Her face only softens when she looks at her animals. The imagery of the white kitten and the white raven make them linked in my mind, but that's never explained.
"He who swaps his liberty for the promise of 'security' deserves neither." Ben Franklin