Attention, punchy series! Netflix has just released a new Spanish fiction that may upset you. Here’s what you need to know about “Raising Voices” with the stars of “Against the Sense” and “Through My Window.”
This is the new series that will be talked about on Netflix. A Spanish drama in 8 episodes will certainly upset subscribers because of its dark and difficult plot but terribly anchored in the current issues of sexist and sexual assault and violence committed against women.
The new Netflix series which gives space for teenage girls to speak out on gender-based and sexual violence
Because this fiction not recommended for under 16s tells the story of a rape. Alma, a young 17-year-old teenager, has almost finished high school and despite the support of her friends Greta and Nata, she is going through difficult times but typical of her age: feeling of exclusion, jealousy, problems with parents and even toxic relationships. .
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Their lives are turned upside down when the profile @Iam_colemanmiller publishes a photo on social networks with the caption: “That was me before I was raped”. Through an investigation and flashbacks, the series will answer many questions: How and when did this attack occur? Who is behind this profile? Is this allegation true and if so, who is the victim?
For several years and the advent of the #MeToo movement, fiction has taken up the subject of sexist and sexual violence against women with different biases. Sometimes very intimate, sometimes autobiographical, sometimes political, the different series which have placed the words of the victims at the center have made it possible to lift the veil on numerous taboos and to allow certain necessary discussions.
Available since May 31 on Netflix, Raising Voices (“Voices that rise” in French) seems to want to fit into this register and tackle this subject head on for a young audience by dealing with sexual assault. , the notion of consent and the relationship of adolescents to pornography.
Like 13 Reasons Why, this Spanish fiction based on the novel by Miguel Sáez Carral makes us follow the events through the eyes of a traumatized heroine and various flashbacks which will lead us to the truth.
From the first scene of the series, in which Alma hangs a banner in his high school where he is enrolled “Be careful, a rapist is hiding here”we know that the series is going to be difficult to watch but that the message is necessary, like the original title of the fiction: “Ni una más”which means “Not one more”.
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A cast of new stars adored by young audiences
In addition to the plot and the message of this series, Raising Voices can count on a casting of new Spanish stars adored by young audiences to hope to attract the greatest number to Netflix.
Thus, subscribers will notably find Clara Galle, star of the Through My Window trilogy, but also Nicole Wallace and Gabriel Guevara from the film Against the Senses, the biggest success in the history of Prime Video for a local Original film in language non-English, which will have two sequels.
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The rest of the cast includes figures from Spanish television such as Eloy Azorín, seen in Grand Hotel or Alta Mar, Ruth Díaz, seen in Hospital Central. Finally, Iván Massagué, who starred in La Plateforme, one of Netflix’s biggest hits, and À contre-sens, completes the cast.
The series “Raising Voices” is available on Netflix.