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EPISODE 1. The trial between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard enters its final act. We explore what is revealed there of our time in mondovision.
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By Florence Colombani
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PSometimes you have to know how to go back to the classics. “The stars are beings who participate in both the human and the divine, analogous in certain traits to the heroes of mythology or the gods of Olympus, giving rise to a cult, even a kind of religion”, writes Edgar Morin in his essay The starswhich dates from 1957. If a certainty emerges from the spectacle offered for six weeks by Johnny Depp’s libel trial against Amber Heard (visible live on YouTube from the Fairfax court in Virginia), here it is: of the fascinating phenomenon that movie stars were once called, of this material that the sociologist analyzed from the examples of Ava Gardner and Marilyn Monroe, there is not much left… Nothing, in any case, mythological or divine.
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