This film about Ari, a handsome, muscular, young Greek man living in Australia is a thoroughly depressing film.
Ari lives at home with his parents but has not, and probably never will come out to them. It seems from parts of this movie that in the Greek mind being gay and being a transvestite are almost interchangeable. Given the way that Greek women are treated (at least in this film) it's a wonder that any man would willingly don women's clothes. Ari is into drugs and prefers anonymous, degrading sex. He does meet a non-Greek man who offers him a more romantic existence but the self-loathing and self-destructive tendencies of Ari have stacked the deck against any happy outcome.
There are interesting bits and some of the skin scenes are quite erotic but beware this is not intended as a feel good movie.
Ari lives at home with his parents but has not, and probably never will come out to them. It seems from parts of this movie that in the Greek mind being gay and being a transvestite are almost interchangeable. Given the way that Greek women are treated (at least in this film) it's a wonder that any man would willingly don women's clothes. Ari is into drugs and prefers anonymous, degrading sex. He does meet a non-Greek man who offers him a more romantic existence but the self-loathing and self-destructive tendencies of Ari have stacked the deck against any happy outcome.
There are interesting bits and some of the skin scenes are quite erotic but beware this is not intended as a feel good movie.