He demonstrates an admirable impatience with the arcs and beats that dominate even independent-minded screenwriting, and shows a sometimes frustrating, sometimes bracing indifference to psychological continuity.
As the respondents may engage in different psychological processes to determine indifference points in the two scenarios, the resulting negative and positive preference values may not be on the same metric.
But its indifference to the tyrannical psychological realism that determines the shape and content of most Western films feels liberating.
The psychological violence could also appear as indifference towards the pregnancy, or inattentiveness with regard to the pregnancy or the changes in the woman's body due to the pregnancy.
Manet was once charged for his indifference, for creating figures without psychological interiority.
And of course there is a maddening, liberating indifference to conventions of narrative coherence, psychological verisimilitude or emotional accessibility.
Numbness can be physical, psychological, or both; for soldiers, it can be a trauma response ("shell shock") or coping mechanism; for civilians in wartime, it can manifest as denial or indifference toward human suffering.
Do we not need to focus more on the social and psychological factors that lead to these acts of brutality and indifference, so that we know the warning signs to look out for in ourselves and our societies?
Such feeling for human life, in a dictator whose casual indifference to it is made clear throughout the narrative, is a convincing psychological touch.
There are, perhaps, political and psychological reasons for this indifference a turning away from the violence, a mission gone bad, falsehoods proffered by politicians, and many others.
