In ‘Intimacy’, sex tape victim becomes warrior, not victim

paris hilton, Kim Kardashian, Pamela Anderson – these are some of the names who are known more for their sex tapes than because of their talent. Pamela Anderson’s first sex tape was leaked in 1997 and since then, even after 25 years, her tape is downloaded from the internet. After the advent of cameras in mobile phones, there was a flood of MMS or sex tapes. Even in the Hindi film industry, their kissing videos were leaked from the mobiles of Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor. The video of Riya Sen and Ashmit Patel was just an example of low mentality. Be it actresses who are considered to be civilized like Mona Singh or actresses like Sherlyn Chopra and Poonam Pandey who do vulgar and obscene roles, everyone’s sex tapes or MMS have been wandering from mobile to mobile. What is the mentality behind making sex tapes or filming their intimate scenes or how to understand the mental pathology of the person watching them is a subject of detailed study but how these sex tapes can play pranks on someone, ruin private and public life. If you want to understand this, then you should watch “Intimacy” released on Netflix. How to respond to a conspiracy hatched to topple a fast moving woman in politics, to end her career or to completely end her crumbling marriage, is the story of this web series. Specialty. The pace of the series is a bit slow and despite being on a vulgar subject, there is minimal vulgarity present.

Malen (Itziar Ituno) is the vice-mayor of Bilbao, a city in Spain and may soon be made mayor. She has stopped being with her husband and both are living their lives almost separately. This is having an effect on their teenage daughter who finds her life a joke because of her boyfriend. One day a sex tape of Malen gets leaked and there is an earthquake in his life. Her husband gets very angry with her. His daughter starts considering him guilty. And the biggest blow is given to him by his party when it refuses him to contest the mayoral election. Meanwhile, another girl commits suicide because of her leaked sex tape. While going to submit her resignation, Maleen meets the sister of the dead girl who asks Maleen to help her catch her sister’s murderers and bring justice to her sister. Malen falls into a deep thought. After considering all the aspects, Malen takes a decision to save his shattered life and ending politics. This web series is a story of violating someone’s privacy and playing with his life by leaking the information of his personal life in public.

Indian audience knows Itziyar Ituno very well. In Netflix’s most successful web series named Money Heist, Ituno left his mark from the first season itself. Inspector Raquel Murillo, who gives all her mind and all her strength to catch the professor, but the professor defeats her at every step and finally joins her. In all subsequent seasons of Money Heist, Itziar Ituno is known as Lisbon. The Intimacy series is from Itsuno. He has made it the best of the best. Being an ambitious and independent person, as well as very happy with his achievements, Itsuno’s character is seen not as a victim but as a warrior. His daughter Lire (Yoon Nogueras) is the second important character of this series. Whenever there is no harmony between the parents, it affects the children the most and often they become rebellious. These children live such a life where they have to justify every crime they have committed. He has no regrets for his mistakes. Yoon’s acting is commendable. The characters of Inspector Alicia Vasquez (Ana Wagner) and Begona Uribe (Patricia) provide direction and momentum to the story.

There are also some flaws in intimacy. One is its speed. Due to giving priority to every incident in the story, this web series of 5 episodes has become 8 episodes in a jiffy. Second, Malen is unhappy with her husband, Alfredo, and so she sometimes has relationships with other people. This thing has done a lot of damage to the seriousness of Malen’s character. Where the first season of the series ended, Malen vows to come in a new form, at that time her mental state is strong but the confusion at the time of extramarital affair was not settling with the character. Malen’s husband Alfredo’s character can only be called bizarre. In the first two episodes, the director has used flashbacks and flash forwards indiscriminately, due to which the story of Begona comes before the sympathy of Malen. If you do not have the patience to watch the first two episodes, then no one will watch the next series. Veronica Fernandez, Laura Sarmiento, Jose Martin, and Dave Wallace co-wrote the series, and this may have contributed to the screenwriting tussle. Well the directors are also four – Jorge Torregrosa, Ben Gutteridge, Koldo Almandoz, Marta Font Pascual. Experienced viewers will know that the episodes have been made by different directors because everyone’s directorial language is slightly different.

Intimacy is very strong on one thing. That’s Malen not losing his will power despite the release of his sex tape. She decides to fight, she also stops the inspector from investigating because she doesn’t want to become a victim. In the sex tape leak case, she wants to show that wrong has happened to her, but it is also an accident, it would be better to forget it and move forward. In the sex tape case in the society, the girl is always shown as a victim and made poor. Malen works just the opposite. Special attention should be paid to this matter. By the way, there is very little obscenity in the web series. Time can be taken out to watch this web series.

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