Litigation between ex-spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard this should take six weeks in total, but now it seems that the hidden result is already written: social media say it’s taken over Depp. On TikTok, #amberheardisinnocent has about 684,000 views and #johnnydeppisinnocent has 1.4 billion (data from USA today). There are also not-so-well-intentioned hashtags: #amberheardistrash, #amberheardcancelled, #amberheardsucks and #amberheardbitch, even with millions of views. In short, the online plebiscite tells us that bad is all Amber, only her. And right after that, poor Johnny also tells us what you did to him. On the other hand, the handling of one of Hollywood’s saddest tales of reciprocal and grisly accusations was better because Depp’s lucid, calculating, and sharpshooter, who in the Fairfax courtroom in Virginia delivered one of his best interpretations. From the breathtaking consensus of a dramatic childhood, made even more vivid by Clint Eastwood’s cinematic images (and we’re already talking about where everything is money, not to mention how a decade was filmed about it), like a father who, upon leaving, telling him at the door: “Now you are the master of the house,” with the right dose of confession of guilt, alternated with irony.

In short, Depp prepared for this role in a way he hasn’t done since. Happy birthday Mr Grape, while Amber Heard, who is soon to sue her ex-husband for defamation after she hinted in a Washington Post article in 2018 that he was abusive and that he interfered with his career, she seems to don’t prepare at all. Or, at least, not in the way that a moderately astute lawyer would advise her: Amber, in fact, is not collected, like Depp, on the contrary, she cries, grimaces, is fond of accents where, on the other hand, there is sarcasm, but for the public it’s a lie. Despite the only verdict, and therefore the only certainty we have today, is unfavorable for Depp, who lost his case against the tabloid in 2019. Sun, who called the plaintiff “the wife-beater in the article” (and the court ruled that Amber Heard’s claims that she was assaulted were essentially true), the public called him the victim. Obviously the victim of an insane maniac who wants to sabotage him, steal his money, send him to ruin, and the whole repertoire is unchanged through the ages, but above all unchanged after #MeToo. Which shows its limits, huge, more and more clearly. So the feeling is The #MeToo movement has been an engine of real change, although it is still in the making., society, disappears. It pales in numbers because, compared to the thousands of men (and some women) accused of sex crimes, the sentences were indeed very limited. Seven to be exact, including one Bill Cosby, canceled June 30, but not because of the proven innocence of the actor accused by 60 women of drugging them and then raping or sexually harassing them, but because of a procedural defect. And it also pales in comparison to a common feeling so fiercely hostile to someone like Amber Heard being dismissed as out of his mind despite Depp himself admitting he gave her head (but by mistake, huh) though there are reports where he says that he took it with Heard’s foot, despite the fact that in other messages Depp wrote to Paul Bettany that he wants to kill Heard and rape “his burned corpse.” Another message sent by the Oscar-nominated actor about his ex-wife said, “Let’s hope that page’s body is decomposing in the goddamn trunk of a Honda Civic.” LOL Honda Civic.

The court will decide if Hurd is a knave. But the idea that Heard is manipulative, deranged and cruel, in turn, set fire to all social networks and became the most widespread version of the whole affair, at least until now. Every sexist device ever used to humiliate and discredit female accusers was directed against her, and on a global scale. Replaying his testimony as he talks about his rape and abuse has become a game on TikTok. She’s been teased ever since Saturday night life and Chris Rock in Trust All Women But Amber Heard.. “Heard’s executioners, wrote journalist Martha Gill recently in The Gaurdian, many of them young women don’t seem to consider themselves anti-feminists. They believe in women, of course, but not in this one. By virtue of the fact that he is in no way and in no way an “ideal victim”. Indeed, she is an unpresentable victim, rich, beautiful, blonde, famous, a debauchee, but all these adjectives can equally be transferred to her ex-wife (with the addition of other violent and alcoholic types, by her own admission), around which, however, a consensus flared up like he hasn’t seen since Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (sorry if I don’t mention the Jack Sparrow saga, but I’m clinging stubbornly to the last remnants of Johnny’s nineties career). Maybe they forget, Heard haters that IThe #MeToo project, its heart, the central point, was aimed precisely at helping imperfect victims. Those who wore the wrong clothes were either drunk, or promiscuous, or in love with their abuser, or had broken the law before, or lied, or had a bad temper, or looked a little crazy. “In fact, Jill always writes, “ideal victims never needed feminism, partly because they hardly exist.”

Whether or not Heard’s accusers are fully aware, juxtaposing “bad” and “real” victims is a very effective method of exposing the now-vanished #MeToo. Rarely does a misogynist openly admit that he does not believe in women. It has always been objected that this evil is not believed, that it lies. #MeToo (title hint) tried to fight this mechanism by linking the experience of all those “bad” ones who were not believed in order to be able to show the pattern underlying it all. Indeed, one could say that the whole project of feminism is to take the bad things that happened to women that they thought only happened to them, or that it was their fault, and give them a name. Divide us again into individuals who are disconnected, imperfect, really fallible and obviously inept, and who can lie, and here the movement is lost. Died. The car has been sabotaged. “#MeToo worked,” explains Jill, “for why every feminist movement works: strength in numbers. This is a political movement that pushes incredibly strong forces in the opposite direction. There is no reason to think that her work cannot be undone.”