Premiered on October 11 ChristA series narrated by Los Javis The story of a disturbed mother —Montserrat— who locked his eight children at home. Montserrat’s first two children are born to an abuser at a very young age. She runs away with them, lives as best she can, and becomes a prostitute to pay the rent. There she meets Pep, a disturbing, ultra-religious gardener who promises her salvation through God. Pep takes him to live in a farmhouse and They start to reproduce.
The family, consisting of two older brothers (Enric and Irene) and six younger siblings, lives apart from the world. “We wanted to create a story” “a family group outside social norms”, the authors explained in the presentation. They said they had a few references: The Virgin Suicides, Camino. Real cases of families growing up under lockdown. “From Turpins to Wolfpack is a documentary about brothers who become obsessed with Tarantino. “There are many.”
The problem is, it’s only with the trailer, followers and big connoisseurs The story of the Spanish Catholic pop group Flos Mariae They detected coincidences between fiction and reality. They took out the newspaper archive and pointed to it one by one. Family confinement due to intervention of social services has been documented. 1:40. A fire that can be seen in minutes. Montserrat’s first lines of dialogue: Verbatim statements from the diaries of the real mother of the Bellido Durán brothers published on the Internetmembers of the pop group. maltreatment The photos of the eldest son shown relate to said son’s real-life blog.
For most people, Flos Mariae is a group of seven sisters who surprised in 2014 with the video clip for Amen: a song about praying and not losing hope while you are alive “like a slice of cheese in a sandwich.” The lyrics, musical style and strange aesthetics of the video made it this way. viral.
From then on, the sisters not only continued to post content (they have 600 videos and 36,000 followers on YouTube), but also diversified into launching clothing businesses and children’s content production. According to what they say on their website, the music group devotion to the Virgin Mary After his mother was diagnosed with a malignant tumor, he became “an extra It is aimed at the business and professional activities that come with being a businesswoman.
Mother María Durán died in 2015. They had 16 children: 3 from his first marriage, 13 from his second marriage, two died. In 2021, the sisters split into two new groups: Mariah’s Pop and 4HBD (4 Hermanas Bellido Durán).
What the public did not know was that there was a truth behind this incomprehensible and fascinating phenomenon. It’s a dark story. Cuatro released a documentary revealing the secrets of the family, based on statements on the older brother’s blog and information that more older brothers published on the networks (under the name Other Brothers Bellido Durán). It was in March. By then Javis was already rolling Christ, The media associated the series with the group and Flos Mariae spoke.
In the statement, it was said: “We are against the use of Flos Mariae’s name in the promotion of the ‘Messiah’ series.” “We never allowed this and we were not asked for permission. We reserve the right to take legal action If one “The crime of insulting our right to dignity”.
Where did the information come from?
Screenwriters consulted by EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA explain that it is common to use this method in stories based on real events, although each production is different. press and judicial information. Lawyers consulted assure that there is room for fictionalization of reality as long as the work is not “too defamatory”.
“If you make a derogatory series about a well-known character, “The judge must appreciate the caricature,” says privacy lawyer Borja Adsuara. “There are penalties for parodies because they are considered humiliation, not humor.”
“Yes there is summary and journalistic informationyou can tell the story,” says screenwriter Natxo López Operation Black TideIt is based on the story of the first narco-submarine captured in Europe. “But that’s not enough: You lack emotional knowledge about the characters, why they do what they do. You fictionalized that part. If you change the names and act like there will be no problems. But if the fiction is completely faithful to reality, there may be problems even if you change the names.”
Screenwriters don’t always get testimonials from real heroes. They don’t want them either: This way they can create characters freely. Carlos López, screenwriter The body is burning (series about the crime of the Barcelona City Police), “the synopsis and everything that was published was enough to create the scenario. SubrogationInspired by Rupert Murdoch, he said: He prefers to read books and newspapers and create from there: that he went to the board to certify himself and got nothing.
In the case of Flos Mariae, in addition to the YouTube channel and website, there were also broadcasts on networks and his brother’s blog. Gerard Castello DuranThe die-hards of the group have already given clues by whose name. Castelló has a very public profile: She is a sex therapist, has worked in the world of cinema, has YouTube and has a public profile on Facebook. On his website he says that his childhood “locked in the middle of the mountains” with his “crazy family”14 of his siblings could not go to school and He escaped at the age of 19.
Gerard’s last names are the same as: Silvia Castelló Durán. Her profile is not private: she runs a sewing school and heads the textile businessmen’s association in Girona. He didn’t write much about his childhood but said the following in interviews: It wasn’t easy and he didn’t go to school.
The Castellós are two of the first three children María Durán had from her first marriage, from which she ran away due to mistreatment, she said in an online forum. Just like Montserrat, the hero of the Los Javis series. In the fiction told from the older brother’s point of view, he runs away from the family and searches for his sisters while watching their videos on YouTube. Her older sister, a seamstress, is the boss of a textile workshop. The pop group in the series is called Stella Maris and is aesthetically similar to Flos Mariae.
As this newspaper confirms, Silvia and Gerard Castelló were with Los Javis during the filming of the series in Girona. When contacted and asked about this, Gerard chose not to speak. “I’m not interested,” he said. At Silvia’s sewing school, they asked her not to use her work phone for personal matters and agreed to forward the request to her, but she never responded.
Some time ago the elder brothers contacted Flos Mariae’s followers. They asked for help to find links to websites where her mother talks about her family history. Now that they’ve seen the series, these fans suspect it’s part of the documentation.
precise sentences
As the series progresses, Flos Mariae’s anger increases. First, they made a statement that their childhood was happy and that they were not abused, contrary to what the series shows. They worked at home using the method home school. One of them later posted a video calling attention to “some brothers” who “have no sympathy for us”, abandoned the family, and have been spreading “slander” for years. He says the brothers put it complaints of ill-treatment, but this justice decided that everything was fine.
Forensic information is useful for screenwriters. According to the information shared by the Bellido Durán brothers these days, At least one sentence about your family: This indicates that, starting from 2010, children will be able to be comfortable at home without going to school. However, this decision was appealed and The court forced the parents of four brothers, who were minors at the time, to send them to school.. The father objected, but the TSJ of Catalonia rejected it. Both are in the CGPJ database.
“When can you talk about someone? There are public figures (e.g. politicians) whose image rights are ‘diluted’. If the series is about public events, you can do it without permission: the limit is not to say things about it,” says Isabel Mariscal, lawyer specializing in the audiovisual sector and partner at Singular Law explains: “To rest, If the facts are public and published in the final judgment, you cannot rely on the right to dignity. regarding these events”.
To heal with health, Platforms are looking for deals with heroes of true stories. “They don’t want any trouble, so they talk to them, ask for permission to tell their story as fiction, and Whether they agreed on the fee or not. This is traditional and legal. “These are companies coming from Saxon law and they are being cautious because the legal system is not the same.”
Christ It is broadcast on Movistar. Inside The body is burningthe court ordered the seizure of anything Netflix payment to the real killerRosa Peral, as “image rights”. Peral tried to stop the series, but since it was a public and court case, he couldn’t even stop his real name from being used. Have Los Javis reached an agreement with their older brothers? Flos Mariae, who was with them on set to tell the story from their point of view? Neither Movistar nor La Mesías’ producer Suma Content responded to this newspaper’s requests.
Lawyers: “There is room”
For Mariscal, it is ideal to make an agreement before filming. Otherwise, lawyers review the series before it airs. “In some projects, they asked me for a bibliography to find out where everything came from. If you say these are real events, you have to be careful. If you are talking about a public figure and dramatizing the dialogues, “You can’t invent things that will create a bad image” To add screenwriter Natxo López. In a biography about Felipe González, you can have him say he’s “sick of everything”, but you can’t make him admit to a crime. He adds that studying the living is more complicated than the dead.
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Let it be Flos Mariae they will go into ragsEven if it’s just to stand out and the fans will accept it lifelike He opened the thunder box. According to Adsuara, Los Javis does a good job of separating their series from the real story. “They say it’s a dramatization, it’s data from real cases, but the others are invented,” he says. “People don’t know what’s right until the heroes confirm it.”
If the family filed a lawsuit and a trial was held, the normal thing would be for the parties to reach an agreement. The other option is to prove which parts of the series are true. “How do you avoid a charge of libel? By proving that what you say is true. It is best for both parties to agree that the incident is being dramatized. “Otherwise, they may call on the storytellers to explain their own facts,” he says.