Ed

12/14/2025

‘Ed’ Short Film Review: The Hollowness of Addiction [SFF 25] <a href="https://filmspeak.net/movie-reviews/2025/9/25/seattle-film-festival-nominee-ed-short-film-review">FilmSpeak ReviewText</a> ‘Ed’ isn’t the first film to tackle the subject of porn addiction among young males. In fact, the 2013 romantic comedy Don Jon that was written, directed, and starring Joseph Gordon Levitt tackled the same topic with a similar approach. Much like Ed, the premise of Don Jon was relatively simple in that it centered on the addiction to porn it’s titular character Jon Martello (Levitt) suffered from to a point where it denied him the ability to be intimate or even sociably functional. However, Don Jon was a comedy where eventually, although it didn’t end on a traditional romcom note, you could count