Characters On The Couch

How a psychologist thinks about your favorite Film & TV characters.

jeremy renner

WIND RIVER
Confusing Gap in FBI Agent
Jane Banner’s Character

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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 …

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Confusing Gap in FBI Agent
Jane Banner’s Character

AMERICAN HUSTLE
Do You Have to Make a Poisonous Choice to Survive?

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David O. Russell’s American Hustle is a cinematic treatise on the complexities of survival. Irving Rosenfeld, Sydney Prosser (AKA Lady Edith Greensley), Richie DiMaso, and Rosalyn Rosenfeld are each, in their own uniquely perverse and destructive ways, just trying to survive. But, are they? If we remove ourselves from the intrigue of the hustle itself (based upon the …

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Do You Have to Make a Poisonous Choice to Survive?