Cambodian - American Amy Lee Sanford (b. 1972, Cambodia) explores the evolution of emotional stagnation and the lasting
psychological effects of war including guilt, loss, alienation and displacement.
One of the important messages of Thank You for Your Service, first - time director Jason Hall's perceptive drama about the physical and
psychological effects of war, is that returning veterans need to be able to talk about what happened in combat and how they have been personally affected by it.
Not exact matches
Women who have had an incredibly traumatic birth experience suffer from a type
of psychological strain that's not too much different than the
effects of a life - threatening event like
war or a natural disaster.
War experiences have a long - term
effect on human psychology, shifting people's motivations toward greater equality for members
of their own group, according to research forthcoming in
Psychological Science, a journal
of the Association for
Psychological Science.
But Loveless has a careful alchemy
of psychological acuity and societal insight that imbues nearly every shot (a close - up
of a face, an epic vista, a tension - filled pan) with a gathering insight into the ripple
effects of turning private miseries into petty
wars.
Her work questions where the politics
of war are implicated in
psychological effects on the individual, and in turn, society.