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Anything that he can do to keep himself isolated and inside his own individual mind, he races toward. Since there is nothing new to be found, he embraces fleeting bursts of passion and uses anything that helps him escape the exhausted sensation whether through drugs or sex, people or music. He reacts to the world by going to extremes in an attempt to register some feeling, a momentary intensity. Ari, the central character in Head On played with brilliant vibrant vividness by Alex Dimitriades, is the embodiment of this tired feeling. It was a time where even moreso than in previous decades - the answers and ideas were sort in ready-made forms. Grunge embodied this, as did the increasing popularity of pastiche and remakes such as the way television shows were more and more the source for films. A time imbued with a feeling that everything had already been done. The 90s can be seen as a time of conservatism and cautiousness - again too simplistically - which could be regarded as the tired decade. If the eighties was - though simplistically - regarded as the decade of high paced materialism. It is a film embedded with characterisitics which intuitively identify the strangely blank decade that edged up to the 21st century.
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Few films capture the mood of the 1990s quite like Head On. It is very much a local film (shot in Melbourne) and an Australian film, but I think it offers up wider and more general issues. This is a film about the loss of hope in the jaded nineties. Its not a bright, gay film but rather a fiery drama which doesn't offer answers but depicts a painful truth which many would prefer to disregard. Its beauty and treasures lie in not judging the journey taken in the film but opening up to the experiences of a young man lost and hidden.