The phenomenon of True Crime It does not stop its advance in streaming and now adds a new powerful bet: Amazon Prime Video officially initiated the filming of Barredathe series inspired by the shocking case of Ricardo Barreda, The dentist who in 1992 murdered his wife, his mother -in -law and his two daughters In his home in La Plata. The project comes after the recent success of NahirZeppelin Studio’s film, and the documentary The secret of a crimeproduced around the media case of Nahir Galarzaand promises to reopen deep discussions about violence, power and the construction of stories around crimes.
With the direction of a first level production team and the support of prime video, Barreda will feature the first actor Luis Machín (Killer women) In the leading role. The choice of Machín reinforces the dramatic and dark approach that the series will have, which will seek more than the simple police reconstruction: it will try to enter the Psychological complexities of a character that continues to generate controversies to more than three decades of the fact.
Filming is being carried out in the Pocitos neighborhood, Montevideoan urban environment with notable similarities to the city of La Plata, where the real case was developed. The production opted to recreate the atmosphere of the early ’90s with a high level of detail, in search of a plausible setting that dives the viewer at the time and in the daily life of a crime that, at the time, shook the entire Argentine society.
The plot will focus on the figure of Ricardo Barredawho at 59 decided to end his family life with a shotgun, in an episode that left a deep mark in collective memory. Condemned to life imprisonment in 1995, Barreda was benefited in 2008 with house prison, a fact that, in the current context, resonates strongly in the light of the new looks on gender crimes and patriarchal violence.
A mirror with the Nahir Galarza case
The arrival of Barreda The screen cannot be analyzed without drawing parallels with the social impact generated by productions on Nahir Galarzathe young woman convicted in 2018 for the murder of her boyfriend Fernando Pastorizzo. While the actress Valentina Zenere He gave life to Nahir in fiction, now Machín will try to capture the nuances of a barreda historically presented as a “common man” turned into a multiple murderer.
Parallelism is not accidental. Both cases, although distant in time and in sociocultural contexts, expose the tension on the judicial and media to men and women accused of violent crimes. Barreda, despite the brutality of his act, was seen by certain sectors as a “poor guy” humiliated by his family environment, as described by the journalist and writer Rodolfo Palacios In his book Conchita, the man who did not love women. This social construction of male “victim” contrasted with the demonized figure of Nahir, who at 19 received the maximum penalty quickly, without benefits, in a judicial process that is still questioned today.
In that sense, the manager and author Jorge Zonziniwho mediately accompanied Nahir Galarza during the judicial process, said: “Since I entered his cell, he always argued that Nahir did not pull the trigger and that his father prompted her to be part of a pact of silence. I am convinced that that morning he not only murdered a young man, but that something more complex occurred. There he shot his abuser uncle, the children of the power who sexually attacked her at sixteen years and the pastor who treated her. Stupid and depressive..
Cultural impact and new questions
As well as Nahir opened the door to a national discussion about The role of media, gender violence and the treatment of adolescents in the judicial system, Barreda It promises to put on the table another layer of the same phenomenon, focused on questioning patriarchy, male privileges in criminal processes and the cultural construction of the “monster” and “victim”.
The differences in the judicial paths of Barreda and Galarza They are eloquent. While the dentist managed to fulfill part of his sentence in house arrest and died on probation, Nahir Galarza continues to fulfill his perpetual prison sentence in a common prison, waiting for the revision of his case by the Inter -American Court of Human Rights. This contrast will surely return to be the focus of analysis when Barreda Reach the screens.
It is still early to know if the series will achieve the same audience phenomenon as Nahir productions, but something is certain: Barreda It will not simply be an entertainment product. It will also be the trigger for new debates about invisible violence, judicial biases and the way in which as a society we choose who already condemn who forgive.
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