The Art of Self-Defense Strikes without Warning

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In The Art of Self-Defense, Jesse Eisenberg goes from mumblecore to murder.

At his aunt’s wedding ceremony, my girlfriend’s 14-year-old son was disappointed that he didn’t get to have his hair garlanded with flowers as his three sisters did, but no worries: Somebody else forfeited their florid crown to him later in the evening, and he got a chance to sport it on the dance floor. It got back to him later that one of his relatives on the more conservative branch of the family tree was staring daggers at him the whole time. I kind of wish that it hadn’t gotten back to him.

There was every opportunity for this to be nothing more than a romp through the objectively batshit world of low-rent martial arts instruction, a world in which I and just about every third person you’ve ever met has at some point dabbled before quietly slinking off—at one point Sensei presents Casey with his white belt with the utmost solemnity, adding after a pregnant pause that there is a $15 replacement fee if he loses it.

, it’s that its mumblecore underpinnings are a little too exaggerated, its world of toxic masculinity and alpha male foolishness a bit too broad a caricature.

But you know, the parody of toxic masculinity only feels exaggerated by a very little bit. My late father was a closeted gay man for about the first 40 or so years of his life, and was the one from whom I picked up drinking, smoking, motorcycles, and other things I’m sure I can’t see in myself for their closeness.

 

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