Torn hair, bruises and a severed fingertip: the difficult dismantling of two not so stable people has become the dominant topic of small talk. To what extent is this relevant to the destiny of the world?
If you’re not being bothered by real people like children or partners, or by regular jobs, you might have spent five hours a day in front of the Law & Crime YouTube channel for the past few weeks, watching the Depp vs. Heard trial and vice versa. Short synopsis of what happened to bring in all the sane folks who didn’t hear about the madness because they prefer reading books, for example: Actor Johnny Depp, known from ’90s girl dreams, multi-million dollar pirate comedies, and fantastic Tim Burton movies filming, allegedly kicked, punched and raped his ex-wife Amber Heard with a glass bottle while she was on drugs. After the divorce, the allegedly abused wife wrote an article in the Washington Post about the system that still protects powerful men, and in which she describes herself as a figurehead for victims of domestic violence. All without naming Depp, after which he sued her for defamation. And that after an English court had already determined that another newspaper may describe the actor as a “woman beater” – because the facts allow for such a description.