Quote Originally Posted by VEE View Post
All he does is call his gun the same name as that of his deceased wife, and gets upset when it is smashed. People have names for all sorts of things, from their cars to their genitals, and that is in no way evidence that they believe that these things are actually people. At no point during any of Burts dialogue have I thought it odd how he refers to or talks to, or about, his gun. Now if he was having long conversations with it, planning the future with it, making little clothes to go on it, asking its advice and generally being noticeably odd then that would be evidence of “Maybe he believes or somewhat believes that shirley(the desert eagle) is in fact shirley(his deceased wife)” but I don’t think that has happened, also, Burt has shown himself to be pretty solid and strong for the most part and being completely bonkers doesn’t seem to fit the character at all. He’s been a prisioner quite some time now, as others have pointed out, beaten, starved etc. and all without his gun, he may well have already resigned himself to the fact that he had lost it forever, perhaps the emotion portrayed was nothing to with the gun at all, just that he hadn’t had it for so long and, as Yarri was saying, didn’t have that reminder of his wife that he used to carry with him, until Scratch turns up, with this reminder of his wife, and smashes it to bits. All very sad, but isn’t evidence.
My mistake. I should have clarified. I wasn't asking for which you would consider evidence that Burt believes the gun actually is his wife. I was curious what you would consider evidence that he has a "psychological problem".