![]() ![]() That choice transforms a poisonous tale about marital hatred into high-class cuckold porn, and the Van Allens from a tragically mismatched couple into co-conspirators who can’t help but take part in a kinky game. But Lyne’s movie makes one alteration that steers Deep Water toward its most drastic change from the text: Vic and Melinda still have something resembling an active sex life. ![]() Both versions of Vic descend into murder when Melinda brings home one too many pretty, dull young men. Here, upper-class stiff Vic Van Allen (Ben Affleck) and his free-spirit wife, Melinda (Ana de Armas), are not New England WASPS, as they were in Highsmith’s novel, but a couple living leisurely in New Orleans on the money Van Allen earned in the business of drone warfare. In director Adrian Lyne’s new filmed adaptation, though, the sex is explicit. Bodies that suddenly bolt upright when another figure enters the room. Published in 1957, the book traffics in whispers and insinuations: A locked door at a bustling costume party. ![]() Sex is integral to Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water - or, at least, the suggestion of it. Spoilers follow for the plot of Deep Water. Photo: Claire Folger/ Courtesy of 20th Century Studio ![]()
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