Team Behind Jesse Eisenberg Starrer 'Art of Self-Defense' Talks Using Satire to Explore What it Means to Be a Man

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Director Riley Stearns talks about his hope that ArtOfSelfDefense will spark conversations about masculinity and being comfortable in one's own skin

, directed by Riley Stearns and starring Jesse Eisenberg, follows a dorky, socially awkward accountant’s journey into a world of hypermasculinity and violence as he attempts to learn karate in order to better defend himself and become a man.that he aimed to use satire and dark humor in his film to display an overt and over the top sense of masculinity. The director said he hopes the movie will create important dialogue about gender, masculinity and what it means to be a man.

“Toxic masculinity is a conversation that is already happening right now, but when I wrote this it was 2015,” Stearns said. “I don’t think I had even heard the term toxic masculinity at that point, so it wasn’t necessarily about that; it was more about my own personal thoughts and fears about who I was as a man and what it meant to be a man.”

“The dojo in the movie is like a cult. Initially my character is really lured into what he thinks of as the answer to his problems,” Eisenberg said. “Then like all cults he finds the danger in it. He finds what’s disgusting in it and what’s misogynistic, sexist and violent about it, and that’s the part that starts to really confuse him.”

 

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