Characters on the Couch
Film & Television Blog
by Dr. Sandra Cohen
WIND RIVER
Confusing Gap in FBI Agent
Jane Banner’s Character
Where does Wind River’s Jane Banner, FBI Agent, (Elizabeth Olson) fit into the mix of marginalized Native Americans and a white Game Tracker (Jeremy Renner) with a significant loss of his own? And, who was she anyway, coming out of nowhere in all her conspicuously dissimilar blonde beauty? We never really know. The film, with…