Fantastic film!

Rating: 9/10 (7 December 2019)

This film has a special place in my heart because around the time of this film's release, I was battling a horrific porn addiction. One that had deteriorated my will, drive, decision making and replaced them with extreme depression, anxiety, social isolation, insomnia and erectile dysfunction; to be frank, I was a MESS!! that mess was affecting my relationships with the people I'd meet -- I really had no desire to go out and meet people. And if I did meet girls, I was only interested in getting them into bed.
My mental health was in the toilet because of this fake thing called internet porn, which I was consuming for 8 hours each day, that had been robbing me of my best character traits, without me even realising it.
I realised that I needed help when I'd met a very attractive woman at a nightclub and we hit it off... we'd went back to my place to have sex, and I couldn't perform; I ended up going down on her and pleasuring her with my hands instead. I was gutted because she was absolutely stunning.
That relationship fell apart because I had this problem eating away at me and it was killing me. My orientation had become PORN. I was so disgusted with myself -- this illness had been building up inside of me ever since I started watching porn at age 12, and I hadn't even realised it. Back then it was VHS tapes. Fast forward to high speed internet and an endless void of clips; the human mind is not equipped to handle all of that, which I soon learned.
I decided that I was going to quit, so I deleted all of my porn downloads and the bookmarks to the free sites, as well as the porn I had saved on my mobile phone. I was taking on the most terrifying fight of my life, but it was something that had to happen. I was waking up drenched in cold sweat, I was an emotional wreck.
I stayed away for 1 day. Then, 1 day became 1 week. 1 week became 1 month, and so on...
After 2 years, I was free -- I cemented my victory by reminding myself how much porn had taken from me. I'm 8 years clean, at the time of writing this review.
I've been trying to coach my friend into quitting watching porn, but he can't do it because it has too much control over him, so he keeps on relapsing.
Since quitting porn, I have dedicated that time that I'd previously wasted, alone, watching porn, to self discovery, meditation, weightlifting, boxing, cycling, yoga... I have even started a fitness business. Also, coincidentally enough, I met an older lady, who is the most beautiful person I have ever met -- her heart is so pure, and I'm so in love with her. She means the world to me.
When I beat the juggernaut of an addiction that was porn, i upgraded, I became the person who I had always wanted to be -- I became my own champion, someone who I could always count on, someone highly motivated, strong, assertive, driven and incredibly resourceful.
I love this movie for mirroring my journey. Joseph Gordon Levitt is a great man for putting this film out there. It's a light approach to an EXTREMELY serious problem. I would recommend that all straight men watch this film.