The pseudoscientific methods of understanding personality

Django Unchained is a critically acclaimed movie written and directed by the

infamous director, Quentin Tarantino. It is set in 19th century Texas and focuses on slavery,
and the injustices enslaved people face. Our protagonists are Django, a person who was made
to act as a slave and a German Dentist, and a bounty hunter Schultz. During the course of the
move, Schultz helps Django find and rescue his estranged wife and gets killed in the process.
Django goes on to struggle and eventually reunites with his wife. 
This movie follows Django closely, and we get to see him evolve and develop his
personality. However, the representation of this development seems to be based on narrative
building and not on psychological knowledge. Gordon Allport has defined personality as the
dynamic organization within an individual of those psychosocial systems that determine their
unique adjustments to their environment. This means that a person's response to a situation
depends heavily on the situation. However, Django's personality remains unaffected
throughout this movie. At the movie's beginning, we see how he is calm about his Enslavers
being killed and him suddenly being scouted by an unknown German man. Any average
person would react to this situation or at least experience some emotions they usually don't.
A sigh of relief, fear, or maybe even happiness, any reaction would suffice. However,
he adapts to it almost instantaneously. We see a repetition of this behavior throughout the
movie, and there is no justification or reason given for this. Even when a person close to him,
Dr. Schultz, dies, he is expressionless and instantaneously reacts to the situation to save
himself. It seems like the writer is trying to imply that Django has extremely high EQ or is
just a very rational and logical thinker. However, even such people experience emotions, and
these emotions can cause them to react. This problem could be addressed by adding some
inner monologues of Django in the film to truly understand his thoughts and why he does not
respond or is numb to most things around him. It seems like Django has been used as a plot
device and not been written about or thought about as a person. The only time we see any
emotion or reaction from Django is when he is around his wife, Broomhilda. This is not
entirely inaccurate as we are more likely to show stronger reactions when people we care
about are involved. But only reacting to situations where the person you care about is affected
is too extreme.
Trying to convince the audience that Django is strong or a quick thinker who isn't
influenced by anything simply because he was enslaved and had been through a lot is a
pseudoscientific way of explaining personality as it is stereotyping, something psychology is
against. Trying to reduce a person's whole character to their demeanor, patterns in their
behavior and sociological factors like their ethnicity or the place they hail from is reductionist
and not how a person should be understood or portrayed.