"Murderous Cheating Couple"
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What You Need To Know:
The film is based on the 1940’s true crime case, the Lonely Hearts Murders, that also inspired the 1970 cult movie, THE HONEYMOON KILLERS. DEEP CRIMSON is almost entirely shot in murky tones which enhances the movie’s bleak tales of a twisted, compulsive, obsessive love between two disturbed people. The director draws out their frailties and darkness with a ruthlessness that makes the predators fascinating in their evilness. There is no hint of salvation for the two. The movie contains grisly violence, sexual promiscuity, blasphemy, and masquerading as a missionary for purposes of fraud. This is a movie that shows how darkness can easily rule and ruin lives
Content:
(Pa, ABABAB, LLL, VVV, SS, NN, A, D, M) Pagan worldview depicting two lovers embroiled in a spree of cheating & murdering including masquerading as a missionaries & blasphemous quoting of the Bible; 17 vulgarities, 6 obscenities & 8 profanities; brutal violence involving a bloody abortion, stabbing, intentional drowning, hitting, poisoning, man pushes woman’s head into a barrel of oil, spitting, woman steps on man’s hand, & execution by gunfire; several sexual situations including implied sexual acts, adultery, promiscuity, & woman making sexual advances to a sick man; rear male nudity & upper female nudity; alcohol abuse; cigarette-smoking; and, miscellaneous immorality with mother deserting her young children, illegitimate pregnancy, theft, lying, cheating, references to God & the Bible in the act of masquerading as a missionary, & quoting the Bible in a sexual context.
More Detail:
DEEP CRIMSON is based on the 1940s crime case, The Lonely Hearts Murders, that also inspired the 1970 cult movie THE HONEYMOON KILLERS. The principal characters in this true story decline into a murderous state. Coral Fabre (Regina Orozco) is an obese nurse whose only interest in life is to build fantasies around her movie idol, Charles Boyer. When she answers a lonely hearts advertisement in the local newspaper, she meets Nicholas Estrella (Daniel Gimenez Cacho), a con man who fakes the accent of Spanish aristocracy, dons a wig to hide his baldness and tries to weasel his way into the lives of lonely women like Coral in order to steal from them.
Nicholas is repulsed by Coral when he meets her and, seeing that she is poor, leaves her only after a few short minutes. However, he comes back a little later, and the two fornicate. As far as Nicholas is concerned, this is the end of their affair, but he has underestimated the love-starved Coral. When she tracks him down, he tries to tell her that his life has no place for a family. Coral resolves this problem in her simple way. She leaves her tearful children at an orphanage to remove any reason for Nicholas to turn her away. Coral tells him she has read through his private letters and knows that he is a cheating impostor who steals from women through his Casanova masquerade, but she insists she will help him by masquerading as his sister.
Despite their blundering awkwardness at their scam, one lonely woman after another falls for Nicholas’ charm. In one instance, he impersonates a missionary. As Nicholas woos women with his fake accent, Coral watches by the side. Despite her need to help Nicholas so she can stay with him, Coral is consumed by jealousy and kills the women. Cold-bloodedly, she poisons one, hits another on the head with a statute and, together with Nicholas, repeatedly stabs another and then drowns a young child to stop her from crying.
Coral and Nicholas form a bond of blood as their deceitful masquerade turns into murder. The more they kill, the more they are dependent on each other. The murders trap and nourish them. Right up to their fateful end, Carol and Nicholas seek each other out, holding on to their “twisted love” to the very last moment.
This is indeed not a pretty picture of love, both physically and psychologically. Coral, oozing in flesh and in heat for her Nicholas, is not the kind of person to have as a neighbor. Director Arturo Ripstein deliberately portrays his two protagonists as repulsive. They are physically undesirable, emotionally empty and in dire need of spiritual help even before their first meeting.
However, darkness is attracted to its own, and Arturo Ripstein captures the pitiful attraction of murderous madness. The fragmenting of the souls of Coral and Nicholas is insidiously portrayed through the movie’s sepia-tinted tones which add to the story’s bleakness. When there is blood, the movie turns gristly with the shades of red contrasted to its otherwise murky look. There is also much focus on the Coral’s flesh and Nicholas’ wig.
DEEP CRIMSON tells about the immoral romance of the tortured. Coral and Nicholas are less despicable than pitiful in their lonely desperation that turns to consuming destruction.
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