Every time I've looked at the libel trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard I felt like I was getting dirty. It seemed like a bad telefilm whose script ran into all the clichés of the stormy relationship starring an extravagant star who has lost her glow and an actress twenty years his junior with a career that has not yet taken off. A galloping fame of hysterical and lying fanned by the networks is added. Before the sessions, I was stunned above all by his manifest inability to understand love beyond blindness, that asking for what they cannot give you. A love that ends up becoming a constant battle, an infertile wait or a wild flight. Who sends out mixed signals, manipulates each other's emotions and doesn't know how to finish in time, when his leftovers could still be buried well.
On the other hand, why has this legal battle produced so much laughter? From the excessive hatred between the couple – he did not get to look at her face, while she, who described him as “old without style”, copied her looks – all kinds of mockery and memes arose; and even an attendee had to leave the room invaded by a fit of laughter that he was unable to control. Because intimacy had overflowed from the bedroom, thrown into viral light with morbid and scatological details that we would never have wanted to hear.
For centuries, no one pitied Clytemnestra, forced wife of King Agamemnon, who killed her first husband, a month-old son, and later sacrificed their common daughter, Iphigenia. For the ancients, she represented ambition and irreverence before the gods. She has gone down in history as the most masculine character in classical tragedy, a woman who feels at peace hating: “You tempt me as if she were a thoughtless woman. And I tell you without fear inside her chest, and you know it very well: nothing matters to me whether you approve or condemn my actions. This is Agamemnon, already a corpse, my husband, beaten to death by my hand. worthy work of an expert artist”. Her resentment established a mode of exacerbated hatred between couples. Neither respect nor self-control, but a righteous violence that puts an end to the bond in a traumatic way.
Today there would be another ethical perspective to judge Clytemnestra, and understand that justice was taken into her own hands. This has been happening after the
This trial has managed to redeem him because he demonstrated his solvency as an actor by bending to the effective script written by his lawyer, while his ex overreacted and lost. He will have to pay ten million that he claims he does not have –some North American media suggest that his home insurance covers it–. However, both have lost, so have we. His has been a deplorable and damaging spectacle for society. A sad story about everything that is not love turned into a universal joke.
