I noticed the reoccurring use of water in the movie Fatal Attraction. When they first have the affair, the water from the sink appears. Then in the rabbit scene, there is boiling water. And at the end, Alex is drowned in water (I probably forgot to mention a few other incidents). The cinematography is very clever about focusing on the water, especially on the faucets which disperse the water. What could the water be symbolizing? I know there's not an objective answer, but I'm curious to see what others think.
Answer
In order to understand the use of water in an Adrian Lyne film, you should probably look more widely at the use of water in his complete body of work. Lolita frolics under a sprinkler, Flashdance has its famous water dance, there's the bathtub scene in Jacob's Ladder, and Unfaithful has horseplay with water pistols, a car wash, a sink sponging, and a bath scene. It may be less about symbolism than about artistic preference.
Writing about his interview with Adrian Lyne regarding his "thing with water," Jeffrey Lantos says:
Yo, Adrian! What's with you and water? You got soggy subway stations,
you got buckets of water falling on strippers, you got ice cubes
dripping down breasts, you got people screwing in puddles and sinks,
you got more rainstorms than Costa Rica. Even your roads are wet.
"Water looks good on skin. It's evocative. And wet roads look better
than dry roads." Oh, c'mon, I say, it's gotta be more than that. Isn't
there some subliminal message you're sending? Adrian Lyne smiles and
shrugs. "It must be some obscure thing from childhood."
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