Grizzly Man is a movie about Timothy Treadwell, a man so fascinated by grizzly bears he lived with them in the wild for 13 summers before he perished, eaten by one of the animals he was intending to protect. The movie is built around more than a hundred hours of films left by Treadwell, who didn’t hesitate to put himself center stage in order to build his fantasy. Autofiction, megalomania and idealization influence the narrative of Treadwell as shown by Herzog, while his parents’ and friends’ testimonies show a much more fragile and unstable character. In presenting himself as a lone savior, the master of a universe he created and that he swore to save, Treadwell constructs a sacred persona, at the center of a lost paradise that only he can understand and protect.