Don Jon

Taking into account all the things that could be said about modern human reproduction, Don Jon doesn’t blaze some radically new trail. But seeing as he’s one of the FEW mainstream filmmakers to even breech some of the taboos, Joseph Gordon-Levitt deserves credit. It’s unusual, too, that the structure here is unconventional. Normally, a movie would establish a main characters problems in the first few minutes, then he would spend most of the movie solving them. But here, filmmakers spend at least an hour establishing the main character, his wants and his obstacles, then the resolution presents itself surprisingly quickly. While the results are not totally unexpected, the briskness of the resolution is refreshing, and you leave the theater feeling satisfied. We all know JGL is talented. Now he can add directing to his resume. It’s a good movie.