Don Jon

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt made a movie about porn addiction. It’s sweet, funny, deeply emotional, and ultimately not really about porn at all. Instead, Gordon-Levitt’s movie is about the ways people create distance and engage superficially with the relationships in their lives — whether with lovers, religion or PornHub – without ever really connecting.

“I wanted to tell a story about how people objectify each other and how media often contributes to that, especially when it comes to love and sex,” said Gordon-Levitt at SXSW after the premiere of Don Jon, which he wrote, directed and starred in. “We learn a lot of expectations from movies, or TV shows, or commercials, or magazines, or pornography, and those expectations are unrealistic and maybe not so healthy. And if we’re busy comparing our own lives and our partners to those expectations, we’re doomed.”

What Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Movie About Porn Addiction Is Really About

A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.

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I'm going to keep this pretty spoiler free and just speak in generalities. I thought it was a pretty decent movie, nothing great, but enjoyable enough. But, many women in theater HATED it; two women in front of me even walked out. I heard many women say how bad it was to the polling person at the exit. My fiance hated all the nudity, the Scarlett Johannson character, and the porn. (She had only seen a trailer once before going to the screening). She hated it so much that she bitched the entire ride home about it. So, if you are planning on taking a girlfriend to see this, make sure she understands it is not a romantic comedy and that it involves lots of porn without showing any actual sex. If my post saves even one man from having to hear 30 minutes of complaining afterwards, I have done my good deed for the day.

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I'm going to keep this pretty spoiler free and just speak in generalities. I thought it was a pretty decent movie, nothing great, but enjoyable...

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YiFYed.