Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Don Jon

There is a lot of truth in this movie. I had to close my eyes and take out my headphones for a lot of it because I didn't want to actually watch porn to watch a movie about how porn can screw you up.

It can: porn, images, imagination, masturbation. Hail Mary's aren't going to fix it. And probably a pot-smoking, sorta cute, older lady in your college class isn't going to fix it either. But realizing it, talking about it, being honest with yourself and others and then stopping, helping each other stop - I think that might be the answer to our instant gratification / addiction culture, to realize how defeating it is and then help each other overcome it.

So thank you Joseph Gordon-Levitt for putting some truth out there, through a medium people really like (and can be addicted to) and in a way that attracts, especially the people that probably need to hear it the most.