8/26/2023 0 Comments Hulu movies deep waterBen Affleck sniffing his snails: that is what you are in for if you commit to watching Deep Water. While Melinda’s lovers come and go, Vic putters in his snail-cave, sometimes holding two of the mollusks close together so their bodies oozily intertwine and, on at least one occasion, lifting a Petri-style dish full of live snails to his nose so he can inhale their scent. ![]() They’re just weird people, as evidenced by Vic’s fondness for a damp, greenhouse-style room in their fancy suburban mansion where, again for no reason we are told, he enjoys raising snails. Vic and Melinda aren’t, as far as we can tell, haunted by any particular flashback-worthy past. The absence of explanatory back story for either of these two sickos is one refreshing element of Deep Water. On the contrary, their perverse interpersonal dynamic is driven by resentment, contempt, pathological jealousy, and some inexplicable mutual need to keep acting out the same humiliating scenario. Knowing this back story doesn’t significantly change the viewer’s experience of watching Deep Water, because sad-sack Vic and his dangerously beautiful wife aren’t meant to have “chemistry” in the traditional romantic sense of the word. But then bad things start to happen to other men in Vic and Melinda’s social circle, making the motives and intentions of the central couple that much harder to untangle.Īffleck and de Armas began their own, hopefully less toxic real-life relationship in 2019 while Deep Water was shooting after the film was finished, it waited out two years of the pandemic on the shelf, by which point the couple had split up. When the missing person’s body is discovered and a probable suspect named, it seems clear the much-cuckolded Vic was only making a dark joke. Vic, for his part, finds it hilarious to claim to his wife and their friends that he was responsible for the disappearance of a common acquaintance who has gone missing-a man, it’s implied, who was one of Melinda’s earlier sexual conquests. The Van Allens have a daughter, elementary-school-aged Trixie (the wonderfully self-possessed Grace Jenkins), who seems awfully well-adjusted for a kid with such messed-up parents: Her mother has a penchant for inviting her lovers over for awkward family dinners, then sending Vic and their child upstairs to read a bedtime story while she drinks and canoodles with the houseguest. Or is it Melinda who is sadistically drawn to putting her husband through this very public form of hell, often at parties attended by their closest friends? ![]() Vic, a tech whiz who retired young and rich after building a chip used in military drones, seems masochistically drawn to standing mutely by while the much younger Melinda, a hard-drinking party girl, brazenly cheats on him with a string of interchangeable himbos. From Deep Water’s first scene, it’s clear Vic Van Allen (Ben Affleck) and his wife Melinda (Ana de Armas) share a kink so weird it puts bunny-boiling to shame.
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