Characters On The Couch

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

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LEO HURWITZ
DIALOGUE WITH A WOMAN DEPARTED 1972-1980
A Poem Of Love To A Wife
Who Lived In Protest Against Hate

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Shoot Film, Not People: this is the poster filmmaker Peggy Lawson, Leo Hurwitz’s wife, carried during a march against the Vietnam War. As we watch Dialogue With A Woman Departed, (Watch Film) Leo’s 4-hour love poem to Peggy, we come back to this sign again and again. Again and again, we come back to Peggy: …

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DIALOGUE WITH A WOMAN DEPARTED 1972-1980
A Poem Of Love To A Wife
Who Lived In Protest Against Hate

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