The earl of Rochester says in a prologue, that you will not like him, and surely we won't. He really has a libertine's life, drinking too much and having too much sex with other people than his wife. And he is punished in a way, that I should not tell you about.
Johnny Depp is making a great performance, being bored, bored, bored and having this hatred for life. Both the way he's having it and the way other's do. Out of his punishment, he comes to some insight, but it's a little too obvious. As a spectator, you don't have to think much for yourself; the film makers do that instead.
Still it's a bit touching and if you decide to see this as a moral tale, go ahead. But it's hard to like the earl, whatever you decide.
Johnny Depp is making a great performance, being bored, bored, bored and having this hatred for life. Both the way he's having it and the way other's do. Out of his punishment, he comes to some insight, but it's a little too obvious. As a spectator, you don't have to think much for yourself; the film makers do that instead.
Still it's a bit touching and if you decide to see this as a moral tale, go ahead. But it's hard to like the earl, whatever you decide.