![]() On film, the lovers are mostly hottie boytoys, including Jacob Elordi of "Kissing Booth" as a jazz pianist who drowns in a swimming pool. Lyne even skips Highsmith’s decision to make Melinda’s lovers notably unattractive, the better to humiliate Vic in front of his friends. In sexually liberated 2022, this updated "Deep Water" doesn’t make a lick of sense. Now Vic really is hot for his wife, which turns him into a cliched jealous husband instead of the avatar of fragile masculinity that Highsmith created. With his fragile sense of identity shaken - Vic is all about how other people see him - the husband is goaded to cross the moral line.ĭirector Adrien Lyne, returning to film after 20 years, is infamous for such sizzlers as "Fatal Attraction," "Unfaithful" and "Indecent Proposal." So there’s no way he’s going to neuter a star object of desire like Affleck. Melinda, a natural disrupter, soon bursts Vic’s bubble by brazenly parading her lovers in front of him and the neighboring couples they call friends. MORE: Review: 'The Adam Project' is an irresistible nostalgia trip ![]()
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