00:00Juana, the virgin who got pregnant by mistake.
00:04Let's compare the most important scene from the controversial soap opera Juana, La Virgen,
00:10and its most recent remake, La Historia de Juana.
00:17Shall we start with the original 2002 version?
00:21Juana was a high school student who, as the title already rubbed in our faces, was a virgin.
00:26She worked as a freelance photographer, including for Mauricio's magazine,
00:31a wealthy man in his 30s who had just recovered from cancer.
00:38The treatment left him infertile, so he had some frozen samples to inseminate a woman in the future.
00:44But then an accident happens in the freezer, and almost all of Mauricio's little soldiers are gone.
00:51Only one sample remains, so this was the man's last chance to fulfill his dream of becoming a father.
00:59He hired a surrogate mother because he and his wife had a genetic incompatibility.
01:05She wants to adopt a child, but the husband says it's not the same thing.
01:10And so, the wife has to swallow that the handsome man can indeed have a biological child
01:15and demand that she take on the role of the child's mother,
01:19but that she had no right to demand that he take on the role of father
01:23to a non-biological child that was hers with another man, or even adopted.
01:29I'll need to raise several points about this soap opera,
01:32and one of them is the fact that Carlotta, Mauricio's wife, is considered a villain right from the start,
01:38when in reality she was just a woman who couldn't have a child with her husband
01:43and became furious when he got involved with a teenager who was pregnant with his child.
01:49Did she go crazy later? Yes, but who wouldn't have?
01:52There went Juana to the clinic for her first gynecological exam,
01:56and she had no idea what a preventative exam or a pelvic ultrasound involved.
02:02Juana's ignorance was a key factor that allowed a doctor with a shady record
02:06to perform an insemination on the young woman, who at no point realized something was wrong.
02:13In fact, she was so uncomfortable with the situation
02:17that she asked the doctor not to explain anything about what would happen during the exam.
02:22The clinic tried to cover it up and pray it wouldn't work, but it did.
02:26And of course, Mauricio went crazy looking for the mysterious woman who was carrying his dreamed-of child.
02:33Except it wasn't a woman, it was a girl just starting to live.
02:37And this girl was so heavily judged when she discovered the pregnancy.
02:41She swore she was a virgin, but while some didn't believe her,
02:45others, less lucid, began to think she was the new version of the Virgin Mary in the 2000s.
02:51And of course, when Juana falls in love with Mauricio, the handsome man in his 30s,
02:57and he with her, all the problematic aspects of this story seem to disappear.
03:02When I didn't have enough maturity to understand the messed-up context of this soap opera,
03:07I really liked it.
03:08But today, it's impossible for me.
03:11The analysis is only about this scene, and not the entire soap opera.
03:15But technically speaking, there's nothing more to comment on.
03:19It's just a student lying on an examination table and a dubious doctor.
03:23Now let's talk about the 2024 version.
03:27And of course, they aged up the character, right?
03:30Nowadays, this story wouldn't pass at all.
03:33In the Mexican version, Juana is already 20 years old, and this time, she dreams of becoming
03:38an engineer.
03:39But of course, they kept the theme of the virgin who gets pregnant by mistake, and then falls
03:44in love with the baby's father.
03:46However, while on one hand they fixed the underage issue, on the other, they left the romanticization
03:52of the heroine's virginity.
03:54Let's agree that a woman's sex life is her own business and decision, and should not
03:59be judged for better or worse, right?
04:01A woman being or not being a virgin is a decision that should neither be applauded nor condemned,
04:08just respected.
04:09The new version tries to break this taboo, with Juana making it very clear that if she
04:15was still a virgin, it was not due to morals or fear, but simply because she hadn't had
04:20a relationship yet.
04:21Another problematic thing.
04:23After all, the girl was starting engineering college, and instead of her mother praying
04:28in gratitude, she was telling her daughter to pray for a perfect man to appear in her
04:33life.
04:33But do you realize that this story doesn't work if they remove everything problematic?
04:39Because its root is problematic, and if they pull out that root, the whole story collapses.
04:44And of course, when she discovers the pregnancy, she is harshly judged by her family.
04:49You were going to be different, Juana.
04:51Your future is over.
04:53These are some cliche phrases the poor girl has to hear.
04:56And yes, the new version still kept a lunatic who thought she was the Virgin Mary of 2020.
05:03Now, back to the insemination scene.
05:05Does anyone buy the idea of a 20-year-old woman who had so much access to education that she
05:11got
05:12into a difficult course like engineering, going to her first preventative exam without knowing
05:17what was going to happen there?
05:19If you bought that idea, I suggest you return it and ask for your money back.
05:23Have you ever seen the process of artificial insemination?
05:27It's something completely different from a routine exam.
05:30And inventing that a 20-year-old educated woman didn't realize something was wrong is trying
05:36to make the audience look stupid.
05:38But as I said, this soap opera's story has such deeply rooted problematic elements that
05:44it becomes impossible to remove them.
05:46And if the protagonist realized the mistake during the exam, the story wouldn't happen.
05:52Simple as that.
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