The Rum Diary

Johnny Depp blew me away....again.  This guy is one of THE true talents of his generation.  Time will tell whether he is a legend.  The movie was a great period piece about Puerto Rico in the 1960s.  It really struck me how people spoke, dressed, and conversed with one another, It truly was a different time.  On one hand very glamorous and on the other hand the basest or lowest levels of poverty.  And something I didn't know until the very end....the movie and book was based on the journalist, Hunter S. Thompson. I just found out while typing this that Hunter Thompson wrote The Rum Diary as well as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  You should look him up on Wikipedia...it's very interesting reading.  Here's another interesting tidbit....both Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson were born in Kentucky.