Movie review: Here I Am (2011)

 

Here I Am (2011) - IMDb https://share.google/Bdl3ofAqdf5dLyBvq

 

Australian woman gets out of gaol around Adelaide. After a heterosexual fling with a stranger on her first night out, she makes her way to a halfway house for women on parole and running from dangerous boyfriends. 

The main character, aforementioned, Karen, brings the quintessential female Australian energy to the screen. Not dikey, or obnoxious, kind of like a big female energy hit for the first day back at school after the summer holidays.

Her mom discovers her after her first night out fling and bitch slaps her in the face. Before her aforementioned relocation to the halfway house. Karen's mother refers to her as a druggo and a slut. 

Karen hasn't lost her temper until she sees her halfway house buddy in the back of a police car. She has a little meltdown then there's more great female Australian energy in the halfway house without going all Matildas gay or fashionably gay like these new Australian commercial TV shows where the naked white women start kissing each other.

It's unclear who funds this movie but probably not the Matildas or channels 7, 9 or 10.

We learn more about why the women in the halfway house are somewhat useless to society. They are somewhat retarded but not in a clinically recognized way. 

Somehow they leave the halfway house. I actually stayed at a coed halfway house for a few weeks in early 2003 just before the Americans invaded Iraq. There was one guy there, Adam, who said he'd grown up in mental hospitals since an early age, like in a padded cell a lot. It was certainly an interesting few weeks in that halfway house for me and somewhere I'd describe psychologically as still youthful, loose and carefree. I didn't get laid though so not very interesting on that level.

The main character meets a 'bloke' she likes at a backyard BBQ and gets laid. Young people like to get laid. 

Next they're back at the halfway house having a flophouse Australian women's meeting for fuckups like me and Adam at aforementioned boarding house.

Actually in those boarding house days in early 2003, I hooked up with a single mom from my hometown like a half hour or so in away. This single mom was also a total dropkick. I mentioned recently on the blog talking in Chinese to a lady from Jilin province China that couldn't speak English. That was around 9 months after the flophouse and George invasion of Iraq. This single mom had a daughter like four years old she'd just foist on her mom, same as Karen in this movie and her mom. I mean my hometown is full of multigenerational single moms so she was one of the few I hooked up with just kissing and maybe second base or first no big deal. Like one time. She was a total loser whatever.

Let's watch George announcing his big invasion from those heady days....

https://youtu.be/5BwxI_l84dc?si=VNe1kOesye_TcLG2