"Don Jon", a comedy-drama

     This film tells a great story of a New Jersey man who admits that he can't live without porn.  The film begins with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, "Jon", hanging out with his buddies at bars and picking up women, whom they rate on a scale of 1 - 10.  It displays the casual sex lifestyle of these young people.  Although he is prudent enough to admit that he will not have sex without condoms.

     Things change for "Jon" when he meets Scarlett Johansson, "Barbara", whom he calls "the most beautiful girl in the world".  She does not give herself freely, but insists that they get to know each other first.  He falls in love with this classy lady and she motivates him to improve his life.  His family loves her and they are inseparable, but he continues to watch porn daily.  In fact, he admits that he prefers porn to real sex because "he can only lose himself while watching porn".   The relationship gets derailed when she catches him and they break up.

     Through a relationship with an older woman, Julianne Moore, "Esther", he subsequently admits that he is addicted to internet porn and it is inhibiting him from having a real relationship.  He begins a journey of healing.  It is by giving up "porn" that he finds real-life intimacy.

     The film is wonderfully played out with intense religious imagery juxtaposed against pornography.  Joseph Gordon-Levitt wrote, directed and stars in "Don Jon".  Excellent film!!