I decided to watch "La Renia del Sur" as my telenovela. After watching a few episodes I began to realized just how dramatic and action packed one episode can be. In a little under an hour episode, there can be multiple deaths, betrayals, and love triangles forming.
"La Renia del Sur" starts off somewhat calm, but the action ramps up quickly. The first scene had Teresa relaxing in the bathtub, when the phone starts to ring. Frantically jumping out of the bathtub, she finds her phone, and the dramatic music starts. She recalls that her partner, Guero, told her that if this phone rings he's dead! When she finally got up the courage to answer the phone, she heard the devastating news. Her lover, Guero, was dead, and she needed to run because the same people that killed Guero was coming after her. The mood of the scene changed rapidly. In an emotional frenzy she quickly gathers up her necessary belongings and leaves. All of this drama and action unfolds in the first five minutes of the episode.
After this scene, another intense clip unfolds where the murderers of Guero come after Guero's partner, Chino, and his wife Brenda. Teresa finds both of them dead. After this scene, Teresa hurries to a secret condo Guero showed her if she ever need to be on the run. This is where she meets the murderers of Guero, and gets raped by one of them. However, as one is assaulting her, she pulls out her gun and shoots him in the head. She then shoves him off, grabs her stuff, and continues on her run. The episode ends in a remarkable cliffhanger where she faces off against the man behind the death of Guero.
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In traditional telenovela fashion, the episode ends with an epic cliffhanger that will entice the viewer to stay tuned for the next episode. The wild twist and turns that run throughout the entire episode keeps the viewer hooked. For me, I definitely got more and more invested, as the intensity of the plot built. Telenovelas are so popular because of its dramatic nature that allows the audience to escape momentarily from their reality to live in another reality filled with drama, twists, and turns.
In a telenovela, the suspenseful and sensational parts of the film is what's typically highlighted. But what we often miss is that the less dramatic and more ordinary scenes is what sets up the plot for the more nail-biting ones. Just like in "La Reina del Sur", Teresa calling Brenda, warning her to run, may not have seemed as exciting as the other scenes, but it set up a crucial storyline.
In life, just as we are drawn to the dramatic moments in telenovelas, we tend to put the more exciting and seemingly more important things in the forefront in our lives. What we sometimes forget is that the normal and habitual days is what sets our life up for the seemingly more exciting ones. Just as we are enticed by the action packed scenes of a telenovela, we shouldn't forget about the slower scenes that ultimately build up the main plot, and this same idea should be integrated in our lives as well.
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