In Deep

In Deep is a frantic, 1920s domestic farce that explores the immediate moral collapse of a man who views his marriage as a prison. When his formidable wife departs for a rural retreat, the protagonist doesn't just relax; he accelerates into a life of reckless hedonism alongside a similarly misguided companion. Their liberation is short-lived, as a high-speed chase with a suspicious traffic officer forces them into a labyrinth of increasingly desperate lies. To avoid arrest, they manufacture a domestic emergency, recruiting a young woman to play the 'dying' wife and, in a stroke of sheer silent-era absurdity, a monkey to play their child. The film serves as a chaotic study of how one small lie necessitates a mountain of madness, culminating in a collision between the fake family and the very real, very angry returning matriarch.