The two sides of female objectification

Rating: 8/10 (25 December 2013)

The movie tackles a hard predicament, one that has been around for centuries, which is how society objectifies women. the fresh thing done by the movie is that it tackles the subject from both sides - The male and the female. In the movie the main lead is a porn addict, and he is addicted to porn because he can't be satisfied enough with a normal relationship with a woman as he finds them substandard to what porn has to offer and on the other side one of the female leads is an archetype of the expectancy what a of a gender specific society asks of a woman. These paradoxes are summarised by certain key scenes,The opening scene is one of them, the scene at the store is another and the house party where all the little girls dress like princesses in the same identical attire, among other subtle hints to that gender role theme.
Technically the movie is good, and for a first directing experience by a main lead it passes fine. Acting is well done, and Joseph Gordon Levitt does a good job, Scarlett Johansson a great one. And Julianne Moore is as always a charm. The storyline is not great and it could have been written better to match the whole theme of the movie,and at points the movie felts stale, but it always picked up fast