Like a mirror on what society shamelessly calls normal...

Rating: 7/10 (25 March 2014)

The best part of this film (which was brilliantly written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt who stars as the titular character) is that it doesn't propose to solve any of the issues presented here it just highlights some particularly shameless norms of society. For example, a guy meets a girl at a club, buys her a drink and dances with her and by the end of the night it's customary that he gets to sleep with her. It is also customary to refer to women as bitches or whores and use foul language to compensate for little to non-existent vocabulary. All these are part of our social norms. Another example is; a guy who is addicted to watching pornography naturally would expect the women he encounters in real life to live up to that dolled up scripted reality as would a girl who is addicted to watching Hollywood romances where the leading actor does everything for the woman he loves, would expect the same from the real life men she encounters. Or perhaps the most daunting of examples could be seen in Jon's incessant worldly ways yet he goes to Church every Sunday to confess his sins only to go out into the world and do it all over again and the cycle continues. Except for a few editing issues, it's a very good commentary society's social cesspool with shining performances by Scarlett Johansson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Julianne Moore.