Adrian Lyne’s tale of adultery and murder is unfaithful to the ending of the original book.
Warning: This article contains spoilers about Patricia Highsmith’s novelDeep Waterand Adrian Lyne’s new film adaptation.
“It lacks the sizzle of Lyne’s earlier films,“he wrote.
Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in ‘Deep Water’.Claire Folger/20th Century Studios
“Do we laugh more at sex scenes now?
Or arethesesex scenes just funny?")
The book ends with the cop walking out into the sunlight with a grinning Vic.
And it’s that delicious feeling of trying to figure out where it’s going to go…
It doesn’t feel cheap, it feels like two people going off the rails together.”
Though it would probably have left a bad taste in Highsmith’s mouth.
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