I urge everyone to go see The Deep End, although I gather that it is not opening in many places yet.
The bare bones of the plot are really just ok, but there are a sufficient number of minor twists that I don't want to reveal so I won't say more about it. However, the manner in which this movie was put together was terrific in every way. Starting with the acting, Tilda Swinton (I remember her from Orlando and from Carravagio, but don't recall having seen her in anything else) is just superb as a mother who has much trouble on her hands. Goran Visnjic from ER also does a terrific job, but the young actor who plays the son is also superb, as well he had to be for the movie to hold together as well as it does. One of the characters is the young (say about eight) son of the main character. Other than to be used in several instances to show how competent a mother she is and how much time and energy mothering takes, he really isn't much of a character. However, even with this somewhat of a throwaway, the movie adds levels of interest that you just don't see in many films these days. Case in point
in various ways the film shows that this boy has a fixation on fish. His character gets more dimension than needed but it helps the film's complexity.
I mentioned the cinematography. Beautifully lit, too.
The cinematography is first rate as is the writing.
I don't know if a film noir like this will attract enough buzz to get into Academy Award range, but it should
both as a film and certainly for Tilda Swinton.
Actually, it might. It is being distributed by 20th Century Fox, through whose graces I saw it at a private showing put on for the summer associates (and hangers on) at my wife's firm.
At any rate
go as soon as you can.
