‘Deep Water’ Ending Explained: Wait What?
thewrap.comMajor spoilers for “Deep Water” follow; if you haven’t watched yet turn back now!In broad strokes, “Deep Water,” based on a novel of the same name by “The Talented Mr.
Ripley” author Patricia Highsmith, centers on the marriage of Vic Van Allen (Affleck) and his much younger wife Melinda (de Armas).
He made an ungodly amount of money designing microchips that allow for drone technology to work. (This is our first indication that he is, at the very least, somewhat morally compromised.
When he talks about his job to a local writer named Don, played by the great Tracy Letts, he gets a quizzical look.) His wife Melinda (and mother to their young child Trixie) just hangs out all day, getting into flirtatious and occasionally sexual relationships with men in town.An early scene shows her bringing a young man to a party that is being thrown by one of their friends.
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