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On, an Australian film directed by Ana Kokkinos
who came to public attention via Only the Brave, is
a fast and furious twenty-four hour drama.
Ari,
played with sublime characterisation by Alex Dimitriades,
is a young gay Greek man angry at the world, at his
Greekness, at people's attitudes to his
Greekness, at his lot in life. The migrants' child,
he and hs ilk create a new class of people; the between-cultures
people, not fully in tune with the adopted
country's inhabitants and not wanting to be in tune
with the mother culture while
involuntarily drawn to it. It is a confusing world,
this between-cultures sphere.
Add to it the jobless, aimless, drug-taking, testosterone-charged
son of the hard-working, traditional, old-values family
and every moment harbours drama.
It
is certainly not an enjoying entertaining film, but
it has integrity. Its honest is blunt. For my taste,
I like my reality to have the edges slightly bevelled.
I found the explicit sex scenes a tad too expressive.
How
many different sexual experiences, apart from the
autoerotic to the alloerotic of lesbian and homosexual
cousins, can one nineteen-year-old endure in twent
y- four hours while under the influence of heroin,
speed, cocaine and alcohol? See the film when it comes
out on video if you need to or want to find out the
answer.
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