He jokes about killing people, then he does start killing people. He’s angry at his wife for perpetually cheating on him, but then he’s also somewhat aroused by it. A computer-programming genius who is “rich as fuck” from developing a chip that helps military drones better find and kill their targets, Vic thrives in what the suspicious Don calls a “moral gray area.” He’s shruggingly blasé about the real-world effects of his invention. To be fair, Vic’s entire arc is a bit off. We know this because his wife, Melinda ( Ana de Armas), tells him he’s weird, and because his new neighbor, Don ( Tracy Letts), also tells him he’s weird, and because Vic’s behavior is, frankly, weird! This man breeds snails as a hobby - the only thing that genuinely seems to make him happy - and I think I speak for all of us when I ask: What’s up with that?

In Deep Water, the Patricia Highsmith adaptation from iconic erotic-thriller director Adrian Lyne and screenwriters Zach Helm and Sam Levinson, Ben Affleck’s Vic is a weird guy. Writing under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, Highsmith published the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, The Price of Salt, in 1952, republished 38 years later as Carol under her own name and later adapted into a 2015 film.Spoilers follow for the film Deep Water, streaming on Hulu as of March 18. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen, the best known being the Alfred Hitchcock film released in 1951. She was dubbed 'the poet of apprehension' by novelist Graham Greene.

Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Patricia Highsmith (Janu– February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley.

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