Cliche for a good reason

Rating: 8/10 (3 January 2019)

Directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, in brief this film is about a guy who's addicted to porn.
I watched this film and, even if I was prepared for an American-usual cliche love story, I was enthusiastic with how Levitt used all the cliche elements to build a solid, funny, ironic, story about true-life events and situations.
This film does not only speaks about relationship matters and male/female expectations in their sex lives, but also about family structure and bonds, that plays crucial role in the understanding of one's sexuality, and that create the role model of the young people (Jon and his sister in this case). Another thing this film critisize is how 21st century people, work out strictly to be perfect, or dress up sexy, searching for perfection they deserve in the other sex. All in all, these relationships are superficial, showy and false.
(Near the end, Jon goes on the gym and when he watches some basketball players playing basket, decides to stop being a perfectionist with his body image, and goes freely to enjoy a team game.)
Also, what Joseph Gordon-Levitt wanted to show, I think, was that the powerful and obsessive sensation of porn is being destorted AFTER the most important acquaintance, the one with Julian Moore, a not so role model female figure.
The scene where Jon and Esther have sex, in her house, is the moment where he truly accept something different and FEELS something different. Esther and Jon are the two opposites, but in some way, one can complete the other, and most of all help him be, not on the one sided place.