![]() His camera navigates queasily through the film like he’s capturing a natural disaster in action. Lyne can laugh at these people because he holds little respect for them, and there’s a general sense of revulsion directed here towards the rich and reckless. If that sounds silly – well, yes, Deep Water never takes itself all that seriously. ![]() He thinks a little too much about his snails, too. ![]() Vic seems to view marriage as something akin to joint prison time. It suits Lyne’s aims, allowing Deep Water to become a chess game with pawns made out of Melinda’s lovers, all eager young men with jawlines for days (played by Brendan C Miller, Jacob Elordi and Finn Wittrock). Male rage – the kind that flared up at the end of Fatal Attraction – is tampered down and replaced by a more even-handed power balance. ![]() Deep Water’s script, overseen by Zach Helm and Euphoria’s Sam Levinson, revises Highsmith’s final act.
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