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Sorry, this movie sucks

Just what I expected

best movie i've ever seen.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The black & white footage from the 50s of Greek immigrants arriving in Australia, looking over the land to which they have been exiled, perfectly captures Ari's emotions as he strives to understand his new life as an out gay man There is so much to enjoy: the way Dimitriades moves, for instance. But there's not much chance to gape, because there is scarcely a wasted frame. The acting is uniformly vital and intense; the music; the intimate camera; the lighting (blue: the night world of forbidden sex; white: total exposure)...Yet there is much more to this film than the story of a young gay man's struggle with coming out. There is also the writer's struggle to establish his own independent sensibility.The price, as he discovers, is exile....from family, friends, ethnicity - and maybe even from love.Early on, we get a glimpse of the split. As Ari finishes being serviced by a burly Asian man, the camera lifts and reveals two worlds separated by a wall: on Ari's side, all is gray, industrial and dreary; but just on the other side, lies a colorful, vital market.This helps explain the ending. He deliberate mistreats Sean - a favor, really - so as to keep Sean from falling in love with him. That's why he doesn't fight back and says sorry. It's also possible that Ari sees Sean, with his "girlfriend" Ariadne, is just as closeted as Ari used to be, and accordingly he feels that he, Ari, must move beyond that. .The ending, therefore, is positive. It is dawn. As a ravaged Ari strides purposefully ahead, the camera shifts from the wasteland of the wharves to the assertive Melbourne skyline.. Ari accepts the implications of his new life, and celebrates by dancing.

...but useful for understand the perception about reality of a young man who use his sexual orientation, the nihilism and the friends as instruments to explore it. a film about frustration. and about freedom. and one of the most impressive roles of Alex Dimitriadis who mix the bitter humor, fury and fear to create a character who gives new perspectives about every day challenges. one of films who use a sensitive subject as way to wake up. and the gray tone becomes a tool for describe long slices of disillusion, fights and need of sense of life. maybe not great. but sensitive trip in heart of forbidden subjects. more actual today than in 1998.

I just saw this movie 15 years after its release, and maybe this is a factor in some way, considering how gay men and women have been portrayed in films since then.But this aside, I don't see any internal coherence in the narrative of this film. What exactly is going on? Is it the complete confusion of an individual constantly intoxicated, with the factors at large being his sexual identity, the cultural identity of the country of his ancestry, and this in apposition to the culture of the country he lives in? On the surface it would seem so, but it seems more to to be a gratuitous portrayal of indulgence in self loathing.

In Head On, Alex Dimitriades plays a troubled young gay Greek-Australian man who has LOTS of anonymous sex and takes LOTS of drugs a LOT of the time. Be prepared for lots of explicit gay sex scenes, not to mention violence and drugs. But I really did not enjoy this film on the whole. The character interaction is very over the top. Characters fly into fits of rage without explanation, people break into fights without warning, and the dialogue is completely stilted and unnatural. I can see this film's basic message, of a young man trying to come to grips with his heritage and also find love and happiness in a world of parties, drugs and sex. It's a dreary procedure, however, that portays Greeks as hysterical violent thugs who dance, literally dance, all day in any situation, even while in the middle of a fight! There are many incomprehensible decisions, actions and the film goes absolutely nowhere. Yes, you feel for this young man who just can't find his way. But it's like this filmmaker is trying too hard to make an "oooh-shocking!", "hard-edged" indie film. It just doesn't work.