He reminds me of me as a teenager. Very into artsy stuff. Always romanticizing my own outsiderness. Desperate to be smarter than everyone else. Trying to embrace my individuality by constantly emulating the "deep" people I looked up to. Wallowing in drugs and booze because that's what they did. Generally being pretty cringe-inducing due to all of this.
Hard to tell how much of this I grew out of, really. Probably less than I'd prefer to admit. But Depp seems to be perpetually in the zone, as far as all of this goes. Like a brooding teenager who never had to grow out of that phase.
He hardly seems stupid, though. I mean, he makes plenty of sense when he finally gets a word out (even if he does insist on describing things as if he's writing bad poetry sometimes). This is just the weird style he's become accustomed to. Who cares, really lol. I prefer that over these habitual virtue signallers any day.
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