Deep Water reviews are in – and everyone's talking about Ben Affleck's snails
Deep Water reviews are in – and everyone is obsessed with the snails. Yep, you read that right.
The erotic thriller, which stars Ben Affleck opposite Ana de Armas, see Affleck's Vic keep pet snails, and while the plot (sadly) doesn't revolve around the slimy little guys, they're all anyone can talk about. The film, directed by Adrian Lyne, sees de Armas' Melinda engaging in some extra-marital dalliances that turn deadly.
"I was not prepared for Deep Water to have more sexual tension between Ben Affleck and his pet snails than with Ana de Armas," says writer Anna Bogutskaya, while Darren Franich writes for Entertainment Weekly: "Vic has pet snails – and gang, this man really cares about his snails."
"Someone named a character Trixie in 2022," says IndieWire's Kristen Lopez. "Said child was hilarious in how often I thought she was a murderer. 'Get inside, Goldie' & 'the snails are not for eating' are in my lexicon. Everything Ana de Armas does is funny as hell. Go watch!"
Oli Welsh's review for Polygon goes into more depth on the creatures: "[Vic] only comes fully to life when talking to Trixie or when gazing in humid adoration at his snails, scenes which Lyne and cinematographer Eigil Bryld shoot with an alien glow. (The snails are a wonderfully weird and unsettling touch of Highsmith's; Lyne has said that the studio was eager to cut them, but he rightly insisted on keeping them in.)"
Mike Ryan, writing for Uproxx, also has some tantalizing extra details on the snails. "Yes, for some reason Vic has a snail collection. I assumed there would be a payoff. As far as I could tell there wasn't. Also, it looks like it's very difficult to keep a snail farm inside a home. (Fun fact, my editor, who is editing this piece, lives a
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