Don Jon: Review

5th January 2014

The opening scenes of this film are quite something to behold with the flashing images of tits and ass from various porn sites. You see Don Jon, the main character and title of this film, wants to introduce us into his world in which he objectifies everything. The things most important to him are namely; his car, his body, his place, his family, his friends, the church, sleeping with the ladies and porn. Yes, porn, he explains to us that whilst picking up women is great and there’s no shortage in supply of gorgeous women nothing quite makes him climax like sitting in front of his computer masturbating to porn.

The film does contain some great scenes of our protagonist, Don Jon, sliding out from under a gorgeous lady in his bed, slipping into the other room turning on his computer and masturbating to porn. Or his weekly visits to the confession box to receive his 10 Hail Mary’s and 10 Lord Prayer’s as penance for all the sex and porn he’s watched. However, Don John meets his perfect 10 in the form of Barbara Sugarman (played by Scarlett Johansson) and starts to fall in love. The only question is: will the Don give up his love of porn for his perfect woman?

Whilst on the surface the film is pretty frothy, the references to the reality show Jersey Shore are easy to spot but peel back the layers and what you find is a film asking deep questions about male use of porn and it’s affects on modern day relationships, intimacy and casual sex.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt in his directorial and writer debut gives us a film that is filled with some laugh out loud moments and if we can get past the frothiness which does happen towards the end with a star turn by Julianne Moore, it is definitely a film worth seeing. It’s only a shame that the audience has to wait for the final 30 minutes of the film to see more of the central character’s depth and realization of what is really important.

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