Deep Water has clearly got people talking since its release on Prime Video, and not just fully about Vic's crawler preoccupation.
The erogenous suspenser stars Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck as wedded couples Melinda and Vic who are missing their spark. It leads to Melinda having a series of suckers which Vic is chill about. or is he?
Deep Water is grounded on the book of the same name by Patricia Highsmith, but there have been some changes to that original story, including a new ending. To explain how it all ends and how Vic and Melinda's story originally ended, we are then to help.
Dispensable to say, there are major spoilers ahead.
Deep Water ending explained
Deep Water starts with wedded couple Melinda (de Armas) and Vic (Affleck) at the acting peak of their magnet to each other. As we gormandize forward, still, we see they have a youthful son and the spark has gone from the marriage.
At a friend's party, Melinda flaunts her youngish' friend' ( easily a nut, as she kisses him openly), though Vic seems to be not only apprehensive of her adulterous connections but fine with them; his musketeers, still, are upset he's being made a fool of.
Vic gets Melinda's beau alone and effectively threatens him by telling him that Melinda's former nut Malcolm faded mysteriously, inferring that he killed him when the man got too close to Melinda. The young man is so alarmed that he calls it off with Melinda, causing Melinda and Vic to fight.
Their group of musketeers, complexed by Vic's apparent' concession', defy him and he says that of course, he did not kill Malcolm. Soon later, Malcolm's body is planted and someone is latterly arrested for his murder, clearing Vic from dubitation. Melinda is still easily shaken by his death but still says she is not hysterical about Vic because if he's a killer, she's the person for whom he's killing.
Meanwhile, Melinda takes another nut, a piano schoolteacher named Richard (Jacob Elordi from Euphoria), a commodity that Vic discovers when a cheque she wrote for three thousand bones bounces. Like with her first nut, she invites Richard over for regale where Vic is vaguely hanging but still, Richard is invited to a party at their neighbor Lionel's (Tracy Letts).
They all get high and hang out in the pool until a storm hits, and they head outside. The group bakes eyefuls and hangs out but realizes Richard hasn't come outside, which is when Melinda spots his body floating in the water. Lionel, Vic, and Nash (Lil Rel Howrey) pull him from the water but he hits his head on the poolside. They perform CPR but he is dead.
When the police arrive, Melinda starts crying that Vic killed him. The police question him but he remains unshakable. Their son Trixie can tell that her mama is sad, and when Vic says it's because her friend failed, Trixie asks her father if he killed him. Vic says no, but she insists he is lying to her.
Vic begins to stalk Melinda and realizes she's having regale with a private investigator hired by Lionel, who's still suspicious of Vic. Vic confronts Lionel about it, which only causes further consternation in the group.
Melinda's coming nut is Finn Whitrock's Tony, but unlike the others, Tony is not a freshman in her life but old honey. Tony comes over for regale, much like the others, but rather than postponing Vic as the hubby he pushes background on his former closeness with Melinda. He suggests they eat Vic's pet draggers – which Vic does not take well.
(The draggers, it turns out, are meant to be a conceit for what Melinda and Vic are missing as they've" love and dedication"."The draw of the draggers, for Ben's character, is that it's nearly like gaping into a world that he desires and he can not have," the movie's crawler tutor explained.)
Vic follows Tony and offers to give him a lift to check out an area of land that Tony could develop, saying Melinda is there staying for them. On the way, he begins to drive aimlessly; they fight and he pushes Tony down over the cliff and he lands by the swash, dead.
Stuffing his pockets with jewels, Vic sends Tony's body to the bottom of the swash. He also takes Melinda and Trixie on an easy street at the same spot where he boggled Tony, the two acting to revitalize their love.
On their way home, Melinda says she forgot her scarf and Vic offers to go back and get it for her there he sees Tony's body surfaced and stuck on a gemstone near the top of the water. He tries to sink it again only for Lionel to show up suddenly, thrilled at the prospect of having caught Vic in the act of concealing his crime.
Back at home, Melinda goes into Vic's crawler chalet and finds Tony's portmanteau, and realizes that Vic killed him; this seems to be the final straw and she begins to pack a bag to leave, only for Trixie to mediate. Her son drags her mama's wallet down to their pool and throws it in, screaming that they can not leave. Melinda putatively acquiesces.
Lionel pets off in his auto, Vic following on his bike, and by taking a roadway he manages to block Lionel, who swerves out of the way and drives straight over the precipice edge to his death. Vic returns home to see Melinda staying for him. She leads him outside.
While not numerous departures are taken from the original novel, the ending features the biggest change. In the book, Melinda and Lionel ( named Don in the book) contrive a plan to get Vic arrested, having been constantly let off by the police.
She brings both Dom/ Lionel and Vic to the chase, Vic checking to see if Tony's body has resurfaced (like it does in the film) but rather than baffling Dom/ Lionel, the other man can get down to go to the police. Vic returns home and in an unforeseen fit of rage, strangles Melinda to death and is also arrested for her murder.
While the ending was likely streamlined to be less overtly violent towards a woman, the novel's end, sorely, feels more real and cements the high stakes between Melinda and Vic, a commodity the movie failed to do.