Upon finding out her gay son Beau is having a sexual affair the disputable 30-year-old night club owner named Darby, Margaret demands Darby not to see her son again.She did not expect that Darby is found dead the next morning, leading to her struggle to protect the son from crime investigation..
For all its genre trappings, this is an intelligent, probing study of an ordinary woman under extraordinary duress.
EmanuelLevy.Com
June 18, 2006
As the protective mother, the brilliant Tilda Swinton elevates this well-directed neo-noir way above its status as a loose remake of the 1949 Max Ophuls's Reckless Moment.
The Deep End is an unconventional thriller with unconventional characters, unconventional actors and an unconventional pace. That serves the movie quite well.
Margaret doesn't throw punches, just rolls with them. Some of her actions can't be objectively condoned. But through a maternal prism, Tilda Swinton makes sure they're understood, with skill sly enough to register strongly in the most ordinary of roles.
The Deep End does what too few films even attempt -- it takes an ordinary life and places it in an extraordinary situation just believable enough to be terrifying.
