2023-05-05 23:00:00
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I remember watching a documentary regarding the beauty contest craze in Venezuela a long time ago. It was regarding the fact that tens of thousands of beauty pageants are held every year in Venezuela alone, and women have been working hard since childhood to achieve this. It is said that there is even a ‘beauty academy’ that nurtures participants in world beauty contests, so there is no need to explain their love for beauty contests.
mexican drama <세뇨리따 89>The situation in Mexico, a neighboring country, does not seem to be very different. This eight-episode drama provided by Watcha, an online video service (OTT), is a thriller regarding the conspiracies and secrets surrounding the 1989 Miss Mexico pageant.
The story begins with 32 women gathering in the mansion ‘La Encantada’ in the forest. These are beauties representing 32 states of Mexico. She came to receive training to become a representative beauty of Mexico for three months until the finals of the Miss Mexico competition.
A tape measure and a pen were the first things touched to these already outstanding beauties. The staff, which consists of trainers, makeup artists, and plastic surgeons, set standards for ‘perfect beauty’ and try to fit participants’ bodies to these standards. They organize strict diets and force plastic surgery.
〈Senorita 89〉 | “Only the crown will save me”
As the story unfolds, it is revealed how ugly this seemingly gorgeous world actually is. We can also see that there is a grim reality behind Mexican women’s obsession with beauty pageants in particular. In Mexico in the 1980s, the only way out of poverty for women was to win a beauty pageant. At the age of 12, Dolores, who was born with a natural beauty, underwent rigorous training that made high heels more comfortable than sandals.
Even if you come from a wealthy family, the situation doesn’t change much. Isabel, the head of the Yucatan state, is a smart and competitive woman, but her only mission is to ‘pick a man with an MBA’ as her husband.
Participation in beauty contests is not always determined by women’s will. “She doesn’t want to be Miss Mexico,” says Joselyn Chihuahua. “There aren’t many opportunities for women in the northern part of the country where I live,” she says. And if the big man in town bets on me like a horse race, I have no choice but to run.”
The intrigue and secrecy surrounding beauty pageants arise from the involvement of the powerful. These middle-aged men of wealth and fame believe they can do anything. They don’t just sexually exploit the participants, they want to use them to increase their own power. Miss Mexico can only be contestants singled out by the powerful, not the most beautiful woman. Beauty pageants are also a good way to divert people’s eyes away from corrupt politics.
Even in this situation, participants try to change their lives with their own will, and join forces with each other. If the characters were drawn passively, the charm of the drama would have been halved.
The drama, which aired in Mexico early last year, was highly popular throughout Latin America, recording high ratings. Production for season 2 has already been confirmed.
Although not well-known in Korea, ‘Tele Novella’, a drama from Central and South America, is popular worldwide. Among them, Mexican dramas are said to have a lot of viewers all over Latin America. Love, intrigue and betrayal are the staples of telenovelas. Guns, drugs, and high-level violence are also frequent. If the last Korean drama is ‘spicy’, <세뇨리따 89>can be described as ‘Jalapeño Flavor’.
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