{"id":9163,"date":"2019-07-11T17:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=9163"},"modified":"2019-07-11T17:30:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:30:53","slug":"the-art-of-self-defense-review-three-reasons-to-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/the-art-of-self-defense-review\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Art Of Self-Defense’ Review: Three Reasons To See It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self-Defense<\/em><\/a>, along with being about martial arts, examines how people who have suffered trauma deal with it both physically and emotionally. Using dark comedy to tackle the subject of toxic masculinity and the various brutish, boorish and bullying ways it manifests in men, it takes a good, long look on how it affects those unfortunately subjected to it.<\/p>\n

Casey Davies is the most unassuming of men. At 35 he works as an accountant in an office where he feels out of place, surrounded by men who seem to spend more time making inappropriate comments about women\u2019s bodies and sex than actually doing their work. At home he only has a tiny Dachshund to keep him company. One night on his way home from an emergency run to the store to buy dog food, Casey (Jesse Eisenberg) is brutally attacked and left bleeding in the street by a group of helmeted motorcycle riders. Becoming fearful in a way he wasn\u2019t before, Casey decides to learn self-defense and joins the local karate dojo run by Sensei (Alessandro Nivola). What at first seems like a typical dojo is shown to be anything but when it\u2019s revealed that Sensei and some of his students have a dark and violent side to them.<\/p>\n