"Head On" is a movie I saw at a charity for HIV treatment in Mexico City; I guess a year has passed since it was screened in Australia. Living in a different culture, there were things I could relate to quite easily, while others were more remote. The alienation of immigrants, greek immigrants to Australia in this case, was something I was not aware of; on the other hand the effects of that alienation seemed to me universal, they apply to Mexico as much as they aply to Australia. This is certainly a movie I want to see again, the pace was so fast I left the theater exhausted, and the images I saw haunted me in my sleep. On the one hand, Ari, the gay son of a greek immigrant is such a sensual man and the greek culture in which he lives seems to relish so much bodily expression that my entire body felt stimulated by a thunderbolt. In this sense, Head On is easily one of the most erotic movies I have ever seen. On the other hand, Ari is so terribly isolated and marginalized, he is so painfully outside from the time cycle of his milieu that I experienced a deep sadness at his life prospects. This recreation of human quest to belong (in its most physical expression) and at the same time to find its own destiny (with all the alienation it entails) was so lovingly crafted in this movie that it made me recoil into some of the deep recesses of my heart and ponder at that particular dilemma of the gay soul, in which its alienation prompted by ignorance spurs a heightened desire of the flesh, with all its gut wrenching beauty, only to discover that such ravishing gift makes the soul´s quest for wholeness more arduous. It is, in my viewpoint, this conundrum that Head On so masterfully explores.