There’s nothing special about two women shaking hands, but when Desi and Cata (Carolina Yuste and Camila Sodi) do it in the first chapter of Sin huellas (Amazon Prime video), it’s inevitable that Thelma & Louise to remember. Desi and Cata work as cleaning ladies and get an assignment that involves them in a crime they didn’t commit which leads to an escape to the front, excuse me, like the ones in Alicante – this pun is also made in the series. Then the two shake hands and jump. Ok not to a cliff but to a Balinese bed but we do accept a boat.
There is a lot of insistence and it is logical that Sin huellas is a series with two characters from a low social class, a gypsy (and lesbian) woman and a Mexican woman. Besides, your status, your origins, your sexual orientation aren’t accessories, they’re determinants of your behavior—that purse that’s so hard to give up, that family you don’t want to turn to, that police officer fears you will… It it’s normal that it stands out because of the rarity, but one of the greatest virtues of the series is that it doesn’t need to be emphasized.
Some of the anger Thelma & Louise evoked in many viewers has to do not only with its ending, but also with the fact that it has adopted some historically masculine codes – the gender, the way its protagonists behave , the tone … – and has refrained from asking for permission or forgiveness. In a sector that abuses women’s stories with a morality as if they were Perrault’s fables, Sin huellas goes for pure entertainment, aware that just playing the lead role already makes a difference. is welcome and grateful.
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