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HEAD ON is an extraordinarily bold tale of one boy's conflict with his background, his heritage and his future. Ari doesn'tquite know how to express this turmoil, and he isn't sure about where he's going. And we are a fly on the wall during twenty-four hours of his struggle.
Ari is at that point in his life where he doesn't quite know who he is. He looks at the world and says'the world is shit' - he sees that it's full of hypocrisy and he asks 'where do I fit into that'. He's struggling with his Greekness, his identity, his sexuality.
But things are never clear cut for Ari - he wants to be connected to his family and yet in order to be true to himself he must struggle and push them away. He's a complex, contradictory character and the challenge for me as a filmmaker and for | | |
