Erotic thriller Deep Water doesn't feel quite erotic or thrilling enough
) and adapted for the screen by Zach Helm and Sam Levinson . However, something in the adaptation fails in translating the sense of urgency and mystery in the film.
There is very little mystery. Shortly into the film, we watch Vic's friends warn him about Melinda's affairs, which he already knows about, and then we watch as he threatens Melinda's boyfriend by telling him that he killed her last boyfriend. After that, we watch as man after man gets sucked into Melinda's web only to end up dead.
And if the film is not much of a thriller, it also doesn't feel very erotic. There are limited sex scenes, with most of them alluded to or happening off-camera, and it does not feel particularly sexy. The only way that eroticism seems to fall into the film's description is that Melinda is having affairs, and it is alluded to that she gets aroused by Vic's jealousy. This is not clear.
Perhaps as a way to talk about the inequality in their relationship, Vic also seems like a fuller character than Melinda. Almost the entire film is told from Vic's perspective, and the little that we see from Melinda's point of view only prove to serve Vic more. Other than that, we don't much about Melinda other than the fact that she enjoys having affairs with younger men and that she does not seem to enjoy the limitations of being a wife and a mother.
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