Cowie’s interpretation of “The Reckless Moment” can almost continue to be applied to “The Deep End.” Cowie’s arguments about the film are still very relevant to “The Deep End” regardless of the queer exchange. ... The replacing of a heterosexual relationship with a homosexual relationship in “The Deep End” seems to serve solely for melodramatic purposes. The original version of “The Deep End” made in 1949, “The Reckless Moment,” had the protagonists daughter involved in an affair with an older man, while “The Deep End” instead replaces this relationship with a son involved in a homosexual affair. ... “The Deep End” is a modernist version by upgrading to more contemporary social anxieties and controversies. ... “The Deep End” seems to almost demonize homosexual tendencies, perpetuating the “wrongness” of these types of relationships.
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