Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso

Its my 3rd day of sickness and it looks like the fever that was once tormenting me has decided to slacken its grip over me...not that im complaining. During my sick period with no cable a friend happened to lend me some dvd's...that meaning the complete set of the colombian soap opera "Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso".

I hate soaps. I only watch them so i can laught at them, at the bad scripts and unlikely situations, at the unnecessary plot twists like a character finding out he has a long lost twin brother, or even better yet, the boyfriend that cheats on her girlfriend...with her twin sister producing the ever famous "im sorry cassie, how was i supposed to know that it was maddie...your twin sister???" line, and of course you gotta love it when a character falls from the stairs or has a badly choreographed car accident and ends up in a coma or with amnesia. Well this weekend i was proved wrong by this soap. "Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso" is a very compelling story of an ambitious girl that loves easy money, and the only way she knows to get out of poverty is to fuck as many druglords as she can so they can lavish her with gifts and money. The only problem? druglords like girls with big tits and Catalina the main character...shes as flat chested as they come, so whats a girl to do? well, she has to fuck a druglord that will finance her operation...but its easier said than done. The impossibility of Catalina having her tittties done obsesses her to a point where she associates big breasts as the answer to all the problems in her life and she transforms herself into a horrible person.

The soap opera never loses pace, its always fun, smart, sexy and poignant, all through the hour long episodes we get glimpses of this characters' take on their meaning of what is love, what means to be free to pursue your dreams, and what matters to them (though as misguided as it may be). The acting is superb, id be hard-pressed to find better acting even at some of the stuff that passes as hollywood movies today. And though it is a look at the Colombian Sub culture, at the world of drug lords and money launderers,of high-paid hookers and the poverty in some parts of the city, it also tells a story people know: The price of getting ahead. What some people do to get out of being poor, of being in some slum. So in other ways is not hard to relate at all.

And you gotta love the opening of the show, some guy assembling the hookers like barbie dolls with oversized breasts, trying to assemble a perfect woman and putting them in a rack, ready for you to buy them...if you have the money.