Patricia highsmith novel deep water6/9/2023 That line - and the perverse thought behind that line - underpins at least one possible interpretation of the sadomasochistic relationship at the center of Deep Water, the third adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1957 novel and the first in English. It might not be the exalted romantic love of fiction or even reality, but for Melinda, an unreconstructed narcissist, it’s the next best thing: Vic’s willing to not just kill for her, but kill to keep her in the self-destructive relationship that defines their marriage. There’s a moment in the aptly named Deep Water, the semi-return to form for Adrian Lyne ( Jacob’s Ladder, Fatal Attraction, Flashdance), the onetime master of the erotic thriller, where Melinda Van Allen (Ana de Armas), wealth-adjacent wife to amoral tech-bro billionaire Vic (Ben Affleck), explicitly recognizes his likely involvement in a string of disappearances and murders and fully embraces her role as the twisted object of her husband’s desire. There’s little psychological insight or meticulous plotting common to Patricia Highsmith’s novels Who watches the watcher? We do.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |