By The Huffington Post News Editors
Joseph Gordon-Levitt spent the first three months of 2013 taking “Don Jon,” his debut as a writer and director, on the festival circuit, with stops at Sundance, Berlin and, now, South By Southwest.
“It’s a lot of fun to play in front of movie-loving audiences,” Gordon-Levitt told HuffPost Entertainment on Sunday, one day before screening “Don Jon” (previously titled “Don Jon‘s Addiction”) at the Paramount Theater in Austin. “This is not just a movie that you’re entertained by and then it’s over. It’s a movie that’s trying to provoke you, trying to get you to think, and, I hope, start some conversations.”
That should be easy: “Don Jon” is like the “expectations vs. reality” scene in “(500) Days of Summer” writ large and feature-length. Gordon-Levitt’s provocative new film tells the story Jon, a New Jersey ladies’ man with an addiction to pornography. It’s not until he meets two women — played by Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore — that Jon begins to grow up.