![]() Affleck smile-grimacing his way through an everyday rich guy/closet-psycho routine for two hours also counts for… something. I laughed more than I was supposed to, which has to count for something. This is not to sound ungrateful for the accidental marks the movie’s got in its favor. The ingredients are largely there, but by even the standards of a genre that no one insists should make complete sense, the movie doesn’t really make sense. Not in a fun way: in an unsatisfying way. There are no ticket stubs in hell, only algorithms that promise not to leak our watch histories to the devil (and then do it anyway). The genre that lulls us into feeling like we’re cheating on “better” movies with so-called trash - and makes the infidelity forgivable. If any genre should be thriving in the Netflix era, it’s the genre that a respectable adult might prefer to watch at home to mitigate the guilt of such guilty pleasures. Erotic thrillers in their heyday were, after all, routine beneficiaries of the direct-to-video pipeline the theatrical successes of iconic high-grossers, like Basic Instinct and Lyne’s own Fatal Attraction, obscure this fact. Even the fact of the movie’s same-day release in theaters and on Hulu feels appropriate. This wasn’t necessarily a bad omen, the reality of pandemic-era moviegoing being what it is. Never mind that the release of the Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas thriller Deep Water - director Adrian Lyne’s first movie since Unfaithful 20 years ago - was repeatedly delayed. Maybe the erotic thriller isn’t dead after all, they said. Ben Affleck is pretty much a brooding character and I mean that’s ok, just a shame he was also a bit psycho.The return of a master of the genre, they said. The biggest saving grace in the whole film had to be Tracy Letts’ performance, a truly fantastic turn and he really did save so many scenes just by his presence in them. Don Wilson a family friend who was also a writer though something was truly up with Vic and believed he had murdered someone, even telling the police his thoughts on this matter. I found the whole film extremely annoying and frustrating from start to finish which was a real shame. Desperately unhappy it made no sense for Melinda to stay, although I guess money talks and Vic was very rich. ![]() ![]() We are left wondering if Vic was capable of killing anyone and we have to wait and see what happens when she suddenly has the next boyfriend ready and on the go. I actually just wanted him to finish her off as that would have been less painful than a lot of scenes within the film. Although I truly hated Melinda and did not see the point at all of flaunting her lovers in front of her husband and friends. It creates that doubt though of actually being able to trust Vic. Although this is not something as a viewer we actually know is true or not. ![]() The open marriage is no real secret amongst there friends and when Vic is alone with her musician lover at a party he confuses that he killed her previous boyfriend. ![]() This then obviously brings up the question on why he even wants it to be that way as he really cannot cope and his jealously drives him so crazy and angry that he begins to make everything more difficult when murder occurs. A strange agreement with their loveless marriage as that Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family.ĭeep Water is a very strange story in terms of the apparent open marriage between Vic and Melinda, when he is quite frankly jealous each and every time she has a lover. Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a married couple with a young daughter Trixie, living in a small town in Louisiana. ![]()
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