Is it possible to make a feminist film about a porn addict? Viewers of "Don Jon's Addiction," the screenwriting and directing debut of actor Joseph Gordon Levitt, may find themselves arguing the point after watching this raunchy yet well-intentioned comedy about a New Jersey Lothario who can't stop pleasuring himself with the help of Internet smut.
At the Q&A following this morning's Sundance screening of the film, Levitt, who also tackles leading-man duties, invoked his mother's feminism and the compassionate Christianity of Martin Buber as he explained the film's genesis. "I wanted to tell a story about love, and in my observation what's always getting in the way of love is how people objectify each other," Levitt said. "Boys do it to girls and girls to it to boys."
Levitt plays Jon, a gym-toned guido who divides life's pleasures into a categorized list of "things": his body, his apartment, his car, his family, his church, his porn. He's quick to emphasize that he doesn't have any problem attracting flesh-and-blood sex partners -- in fact, he's so skilled that his friends call him Don Jon. But only in the presence of porn can he truly lose himself. "I think it's true that a lot of guys are learning what they think love and sex are supposed to be from the unlimited amount of porn available on the Internet," Levitt said.
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