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Nathan JohnsonCast:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Glenne Headly, Brie Larson, Italia Ricci, Rob Brown, Channing Tatum, Anne Hathaway (more)VOD (1)
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Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to "pull" a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn't compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is a bright, beautiful, good old fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, she's determined to find her Prince Charming and ride off into the sunset. Wrestling with good old fashioned expectations of the opposite sex, Jon and Barbara struggle against a media culture full of false fantasies to try and find true intimacy in this unexpected comedy written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (Roadshow Entertainment)
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Don Jon does not have nice characters, nor does it offer anything that dazzles or inspires. But it is distinctive, it knows
what it wants to say and says it honestly and aptly. I applaud Gordon-Levitt for choosing to make this for Sundance
festivalgoers and not for the much more numerous (and big-spending) consumers of dime-a-dozen Hollywood
romances.
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This film looks different on the outside (synopsis, trailers) than what it is. I wasn’t expecting it to be so mature and self-aware, my appreciation for Gordon-Levitt has risen. Until now I regarded him as an interesting actor, but now I seem him as an interesting filmmaker who knows what he wants to say without pandering.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt's striking feature film debut may have a significantly smaller scope than it tries to appear, but when it fully flexes all its muscles, it works perfectly. Life truths, however wrapped in seemingly trivial issues of pornography or personal space, are sometimes just a few short sentences away from us. And to put such thoughts on paper, to film them, and even to play the central sixpack character takes courage.
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A bit too much teen cover, but otherwise it’s a quite interesting probe into a boy's life, or rather thoughts. A classic story at the beginning, which turns into a quite mature and watchable thing over time (with Julianne Moore's arrival on the scene). For a film about Joseph Gordon-Levitt's age, this one is more distinctive than it may seem at first impression. Scarlett Johansson is great again.
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Wow, so the girl is breaking up with her boyfriend because he watches porn. And she even accuses him of being a hypocrite because he does it. The question is whether Gordon-Levitt meant it as hyperbole or if there really are people who think like this. So maybe yes. I have a bit of a problem with the whole movie, whether it was intentional or if the social criticism was just coincidental. The unpleasant characters are clearly intentional, I've never seen Scarlett so horrible before. The movie wants to say something, but in the end I had the feeling that it didn't quite succeed. When I compare it to a similarly self-destructive movie like "Shame", the message is not as strong and it's more of a pointing out of problems in society. Not that people watch porn, but that they are unable to communicate.
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