ever has a made for television movie had a title quite as apt as Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial. The film is a dramatisation of the defamation trial that Johnny Depp brought against, regarding the collapse of their marriage, and subsequent collapse of their reputations as even vaguely employable actors.
In real life, by all accounts, their marriage was marred by a clash of toxic, mismatched personalities. In Depp we had a grown man scarred by an abusive childhood, who developed a tendency to hide his emotional dysregulation behind a cocktail of alcohol and narcotics. And in Heard, we had a woman with a reported diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder.
At times we’re just shown re-enactments of what each of them said about specific events. So, for instance, during the notorious incident where a room ended up covered in broken glass and blood, and Depp missing some of a finger, we see a scene where Johnny Depp loses his mind with drunken violence and beats and chokes Amber Heard. And then we see another one where Heard deliberately cuts his finger and he starts using the resulting blood to write illegible slurs about his wife on the walls.
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