Josep Maria Mainat in 'Anatomy of...', on La Sexta.
Periodista i crítica de televisió
2 min

On Sunday night, on La Sexta, they broadcast a new episode ofAnatomy of..., this time focusing on Angela Dobrowolski's attempted murder of Josep Maria Mainat. It is, without a doubt, the most complete and detailed account of everything that happened that June night in 2020. true crime It has images from all the security cameras the television producer had installed inside his house. It's a precise and comprehensive reconstruction of events. We see Dobrowolski's fourteen movements between Mainat's room and the refrigerator, following some suspicious preparations behind the refrigerator doors. We also see the moment when the woman goes out to greet the ambulance when her husband is in a terminal condition. Anatomy of... takes advantage of this unusual visual element. There are times when the program divides the screen into sixteen frames that show different moments of the night, which reinforces this disturbing idea of domestic ultra-surveillance. The amount of family images available is surprising. They include photographs of the remains of some of the couple's fights: a broken guitar stool, wounds caused by thrown objects, broken glass. There's even a brief video fragment where Josep Maria Mainat is seen having dinner at home and, behind him, the security guard who protected him while the producer had to live with the person who had tried to kill him. Life recorded. The program features the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police), the producer's lawyer, journalist Mayka Navarro, and, finally, Mainat himself, who has always maintained control of the television narrative. He provides first-person details and justifies the entire display of images that constantly recorded everyday life at home. Beyond the sordid story of the relationship and the final crime and all the subsequent media spectacle, Anatomy of... It lives up to the program's title. It's an observation of the morphology of events at the human, systemic, behavioral, and topographical levels. The abundant camera footage facilitates this obsessive, almost microscopic monitoring of the domestic environment. Despite the attempt to normalize it, it's a factor that contributes to making the story even more disturbing.

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