In recent months, Buenos Aires was the scene of a disturbing phenomenon that seemed to have remained in time but nevertheless returned with more force. A new wave of urban black widows; Women who seduce men with the aim of stealing their belongings of the moment and in some cases, even devalue them the house if they access it.
The most resonant case was that of four sisters who were arrested for seducing, drugs and robbing men in the neighborhoods of Villa Crespo, Paternal and Palermo. Another similar event that ended in tragedy was that of the renowned economist Pablo Jiménez which appeared dead in his Buenos Aires department after an alleged aggression with the modus operandi of seduction, drugs and disappearance of goods. And as if everything was part of a mirror script, a complaint was added against a 20 -year -old girl who was accused of drug and devalue a 55 -year -old man, also in Palermo.
The funny thing is that while these real episodes filled the police sections of all newspapers and news portals, the series was released on Argentine “Black widows, p*tas and chorras” that he is beating all the records and in less than a week the fiction of the moment became. In the tone of black comedy and social criticism, recreate with dogmatic precision the universe of these women who take advantage of the male desire to execute their lethal blows.
Parallel universes. “Black widows …” It was an idea of Malena (pichot) and when an important producer accepted it, we sat down to write it with Ariana Saiegh”, He tells news Julián Luceroone of the three authors of the series who is raging on the Flow platform for its veracity and connection with reality. Fiction, starring the same Pichot and Pilar Gamboait comes just when reality speaks again of black widows as if the criminal subgenre had reactivated. In fiction, Maru (Gamboa) and Micaela (Pichot) They are two former black widows who, after years of retirement, are recruited by an old known to return to the ring and execute a last job, sleep and deliver a young entrepreneur with important links. What looks like the classic farewell plan becomes the kick for a story that mixes thriller, acid humor, class criticism and generational portrait.
“It is not opportunism, but coincidence. While we filmed it, two or three cases of black widows appeared weekly, as if it were a” boom. “A Spanish film that is called” The Black Widow “was released and is being the most seen globally. It is that the phenomenon is in the air and as the way of stealing has something funny, forbidden and marginal, it comes quickly on the people, it reflects on the people Explosion in unison of both real cases and fiction.
Impure coincidence. Many of the cases seem scripted, but they really happened. The four sisters arrested in the area of Villa Crespo and Paternal They had a pattern, they went out at night, seduced men, drugged with pills and then emptied wallets, cards and cell phones. In Palermo, the economist Pablo Jiménez was found dead, gagged, in what justice investigates as a new attack with the signing of the black widows. And the case of the 20 -year -old who seduced and helped a man in March closed the circle with a last blow.
In all, the conductive thread is the same: the combination of seduction and anesthesia, the fair doses to erase the other’s conscience and take advantage of the loot. In most cases, men do not report as shame or machismo: nobody wants to admit that he was deceived by a girl who thought he had conquered, much less when they are two or three at the same time. The success of the Argentine series and its Spanish pair but in film format demonstrates that the criminal tutorial occurs in a framework where appointment applications and eternal singleness are at its maximum splendor.
On this period photography, Lucero details: “We did not interview any black widow but there was documentary research. And we concluded that the cases we know must be just five percent of those who happen, because no man is going to say:” I was stolen two mines that I thought I had risen. ” less than its consequences. ”
The disturbing thing about these two worlds that dialogue and seem to be reflected in a mirror, is synchrony. The series premiered just days before the last cases were known. In full rise of digital media, the question is whether the black widows return because the screen anticipates it or because, simply, they never left. Fiction says it with humor: “The man who takes two mines is created a boss, until she wakes up without a wallet or dignity”. The phenomenon, which had its boom in the 1990s, today returns with new codes, social networks, fast encounters, the most accessible pills and a context of inequality that returns everything more murky.
Narrative freedom. “We had no conditioning regarding the creation of the producer, rather than ours to understand that there were scenes that were expensive to recreate. But as for the script, no imposition,” says Lucero, who speaks with the surprise of the success they are having, and that is explained by the revealing of a plot that in addition to entertaining, seems to warn future victims so that they do not fall into the trap of drinking. or eat products from which its origin is unknown. And he concludes: “We had no censorship or loss of line. Everything that the series counts was what we wanted to tell, however explicit it was and maybe there lies the success it is having.”
It is that the series plays with that. With the idea that the truth, no matter how much he tries to hide, he can always hit the door. And in that game, “Black widows, p*tas and chorras” It is installed as a rarity that challenges the limits of black comedy, which does not apologize to bother, inform (for better and worse) and turn this type of crime into a field to think, laugh and scare at the same time.
