"Silently, and with a smile, and with all that was left of him, he cursed it." "He smiled at Wilson's grim, resentful, the-world-owes-me-a-living face, which was the reflection of the small, dull mind behind it, and Vic cursed it and all it stood for," writes Highsmith. The book ends with the cop walking out into the sunlight with a grinning Vic. When Melinda tells Vic that she has spoken to Wilson, he realizes what has happened and strangles Melinda to death, just before Wilson and a policeman arrive at the couple's house. In Highsmith's original tale, an acquaintance of Vic's named Don Wilson uncovers proof of his homicidal ways and calls Melinda to let her know that she is married to a murderer. Lyne's film really departs from the source material by Highsmith, whose other books include Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. "Do we laugh more at sex scenes now? Or are these sex scenes just funny?") "It lacks the sizzle of Lyne's earlier films," he wrote. (Affleck and de Armas famously dated in real-life, though their onscreen sexy time left EW's reviewer Darren Franich somewhat cold. Lyne, meanwhile, has his two leads engage in the kind of lubricious scenes you might expect from the director responsible for 1986's 9½ Weeks and the following year's Fatal Attraction. But there are some major differences: the movie takes place in the present day and takes longer than the book to definitively confirm that Affleck's character really is offing his spouse's beaus.
Both book and movie, for example, start with Vic informing Melinda's current boyfriend at a party that he has killed a previous suitor, although in such a way that it can be taken as a joke.
The film's screenplay, by Zach Helm ( Stranger Than Fiction) and Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, is in many ways very faithful to Highsmith's psychological thriller.
The seemingly good-natured Vic has his own habit, which involves murdering the adulterous Melinda's boyfriends with near-clockwork regularity. In director Adrian Lyne's just-released-to-Hulu adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1957 novel Deep Water, Ben Affleck plays Vic, who has an unfaithful wife named Melinda - portrayed by Ana de Armas - and a fascination with the mating habits of snails. Warning: This article contains spoilers about Patricia Highsmith's novel Deep Water and Adrian Lyne's new film adaptation.
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