Memorable, crazy movie

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I thought this movie was magnificent! Contrary to what others have said about the cinematography being nauseating, I thought the unsteady camera shots were crucial to giving the feeling of standing in the room through every emotional scene. And I do mean EVERY emotional scene, as in every scene took you to experience all the highs and lows (really LOW)of Wilmot's life. When Wilmont attempts to give Barry her first acting lesson on the stage lit with two huge low hung, eerie and romantic chandeliers, I felt they fell in love then, aside from Barry's hard-to-get "dance." It was as if they were dancing around each other with their squabbling and witty answers back and forth. This was my favorite scene. For anyone who feels they didn't enjoy the movie that much or found it confusing, I urge you to watch it again, because when I did I only loved it more than before!

The uneven candle flame, twitching, lights thin, aristocratic face with arrogant smile and scornful provoking glance. This is John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. A young man, in own way beautiful with some special Bohemian beauty. He frankly warms, that we'll not like him. Without hypocritical shyness, glutting his own truthfulness, he, with some relish, tells us about infinite liberality, intriguing women and setting men's teeth on edge. He made himself comfortable at court, no less comfortably and successfully married, and even more comfortably allowed for free expression of his desires, lusts and passions.The violent rebel, charming villain, free-thinker, unrestrained debauchee, rake, promiscuous bisexual, unprincipled cynic, John Wilmot, hourly bids defiance to public opinion, Londoners, King, God, life and death. His dirty-subtle lore shocks the feigned-decent ears, his drain-less binges and provocative tricks make his benefactor King Charles II lose his patience. J.Wilmot – is a lucky: young and pretty wife, patronage at the court of, friends-supporters, all the opportunities for creative realization, exceptional talent of playwright, public position and…total freedom of expression, which he successfully operates. By his own words, very few people will come near him in tenacity to debauchery. Of course, because all that surrounds him, - is sheer affectation, only illusion of gentle-hood. For what's in his mind is far more interesting than what's outside his mind. He's enticed by absolutely another England: dark, dirty, shameful cloaca, rotting and engulfing. And he, threw himself headlong into this cloaca, conniving at all his limitless and pathologic fantasies. Soon or later, this excessive disgraceful behavior begins to annoy others: the wife psych out, King rages, society excitedly cackles. Ah, how come: shameless Rochester dared publicly to live like majority just dream about, packing up themselves in cocoon of the fear of God and meekness. What makes this libertine – the desire to oppose himself to morally-good society? He needs to go to extremes, to overstep the marks, otherwise he ceases to breath and thus live… He could not dance a half measure, could he? He doesn't even see right to hold back his love in mediocre actress with no outstanding appearance. Day after day he patiently sculpts her talent and, as a result gives a high dazzling polish her modest talent. Eulogistic play for the King? And here Johnny has his special creative vision: his sarcastic freestyle performance is a pornographic representation of a royal court – a kind of monument to reign of King Charles II.The attitude of John Wilmot - is not to flounder for show in debauchery and habitual drunkenness, but do what is beyond his abilities. He is absolutely sincere in his impulses. And so careless and reckless. All his life – incline, which it is impossible to balance on. Showing principled promiscuity and carelessness, Johnny falls from the incline, and in shattering flight he has time to catch the lost values and rejected orientations. Clinging on leaving seconds of life, agonizing, he took God and, gathered his last strength, went to meet dying impulse - to do anything right, namely: to protect the Royal privileges. The lame, nose-less, half-blind John Wilmot, maneuvering by the crutches, but with congenital feline grace, in graceful manner of plastic, makes a dramatic entrance into Parliament and makes, saying the last of his life in a brilliant speech. He is perfect as never before in this moment, ugly-beautiful in his the most miserable and degenerate human form. Do we like him now? Do we?Johnny leaves, shuffling from the world. «The withered flower» crumbled into dust. Beautiful, unbridled and dizzy life- bacchanalia always finishes quickly and ingloriously. So ended the life and theater of John Wilmot. The curtain.The Earl of Rochester – is role for Johnny Depp. «The Libertine» - drama film for Johnny Depp. And in my opinion, it's the most prominent, brightest role of actor. It is impossible to imagine someone else in the image of this contradictory historical figure: the natural charisma combined with Gothic mystery of J.Depp provides him a plausible similarity with his character. Johnny Depp - as the reincarnation of raffish Earl.The film's atmosphere completely parallels to immoral inside of medieval London: the video is defiantly dirty, hopeless dark, oppressive, blowzy and obscene. This is it's organically-vulgar style of. «The Libertine» - it's none the ode to Sodom, as it can seem at first sight. It is a true story about man, high-handed in his furious quest to overstep the marks, neglecting as decency, morality, respectability and the basic safety precautions. This story tells, that greedy and back-alley intake of various pleasures and dubious pleasures soon or later will wear the body and depersonalize the soul. The rule is simple: any moral flaw is projected in a physiological disease. That is to say, the deep drinker is «awarded» a cirrhosis, evil genius – madness, and libertine - devastating venereal disease. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.Of course, this movie is not for everyone. Some people, drawn by involuntary hypnosis, couldn't take their eyes off the screen since the very first frame. Others, spitting with disgust, «knowingly» calls names of «bawdry», «bad taste», «guck». While this film promotes to check yourself, our liking, our intellect, our aesthetic perception. The exquisite sarcasm of dialogs and fascinating acting largely contributed to this.

This film recounts the life and times of a 17th century poet who wallowed in drink and debauchery. This is a dull and dreary film that not only tells an ugly story about an uninteresting fellow, but also looks ugly. The cinematography is gray and grainy, making for a very depressing viewing experience. The script is too murky. It starts with Depp seemingly talking to the audience from beyond the grave and goes downhill from there. The dialog is too pretentious and there's too much of it. It's just an unpleasant way to spend a couple of hours. Depp tries hard and there are other good actors, but they are given little to work with. Curiously this is the only directorial credit of Dunmore.

This movie was the worst movie I have ever seen in my life time.Johnny Depp's performance was great. However the movie itself was down right awful.It was demented and degrading to gays and women. Toward the end of this piece of crap movie,he looked like a decaying corpse. I did not know that rotten flesh bad language and a lot of sex made a good movie.I thought that good acting and a good plot made a good movie.Not a man with a horrible affliction and bad acting. That is my mom's take on this ghastly movie, mine is I found it be appalling and an abomination! I did not know that obsession with man's genitals and orgies! Made a movie good! Depp's performance was one of his best ever, it is to bad. He wasted on such a disgusting , perverted piece of tripe! This movie is like the plague, it lingers and makes you suffer as you watch it! I think the worst part was his body deteriorate and wither in decay! We give this movie an F, not suitable for everyone due the pervese and disturbing content. How it made it to theaters we have no idea!