'Don Jon' is Not Like Any Romantic Comedy

Don't let the porn confuse you: Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, "Don Jon," is a romantic comedy. It's just not the sort of romantic comedy you're used to.

The film centers around Gordon-Levitt's porn-addicted playboy Jon, who can't seem to connect with real-life women in the way he's able to with digital bed buddies. Even when said ladies look like Scarlett Johansson.

But Gordon-Levitt, who also wrote "Don Jon," isn't just singling out romantic comedies (or porn, for that matter) alone for their often fantastical visions of reality; it's all forms representing unattainable ideals.

"Well, it's sort of making fun of the movies that you're talking about, and not just movies — all kinds of media is constantly giving us unrealistic expectations about what men and women are supposed to be, about what love and sex are supposed to be," Gordon-Levitt told MTV News' Josh Horowitz recently.

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