Peralta Ramos avenue, which surrounds the coast, is usually very busy during the day, not even imagining it on a Saturday in January, after one in the morning, near Playa Grande, the area par excellence for nightclubs in Mar del Plata .
The car was ten blocks away -uphill- and the first thing that attracts attention at such a distance from where the youth come together
are the police checkpoints
.
At least three, where bottlenecks are formed to prevent infiltrators and where the agents first ask for a document and then verify that no sharps are being carried.
Every morning the Mar del Plata portals report fights, brawls and beatings, some more brutal than others at dawn.
The most resonant was that of the Ethiopian athlete Welega Fresno, but clashes between drunken groups, which occurred mainly at the exit of the nightclubs
, were commonplace in the first fortnight
.
It is understood, then, that the presence of the Immediate Operations Tactical Unit (UTOI) is multiplied.
Music, drinks and fun at night at the Bruto disco, in Mar del Plata.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll
A crowd of thousands in their twenties and thirties dominates the area.
In a five-hundred-meter corridor, Ananá, Mr. Jones, Only, Zwan, Stadium, Sethai, Santa and Bruto follow one another, a record that "is the top of the night in Mar del Plata", according to what they confirmed to the photographer and chronicler -which exceed the 110 years between them.
More than intimidating, the first perplexed glances at these "foreigners" make them uncomfortable, but it will be a joke at the end of the night.
You can't really walk through the various halls of the place.
Inexperience leads the duo of reporters right to the place of greatest fuss and remains immobile for 15 minutes.
There is a bachelor party and the girls, exultant, cause a traffic jam that they don't even register.
They play "Mama, sorry for my crazy life" first and then "I don't feel anything", by La Joaqui, and the effervescence is total.
The motionless cameraman cannot use his machine.
And instantly becomes a laughing stock.
The bar, without pause.
Each drink costs, on average, $2,000.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll
With effort, the bar was the first destination to hold on and stand.
Spread the drink at will.
Glasses, glasses, shots and bottles of whatever.
A beer costs $700, a shot of whiskey and vodka costs $2,500, gin and fernet $2,000.
The average number of drinks is three per person and if you add to this the value of the ticket
($6,000 for men and $4,000 for women), you can spend around 15,000 pesos for a night of bowling.
While
the floor vibrates with "Amor bipolar", by Duki, Lucas, a 26-year-old from Santa Fe, is alone.
Drinking and with a lost look.
"What is done here?
You drink non-stop. Face someone? It's very difficult here, you don't have a chance, unless you steal a kiss
. Yes, you can ask for an Instagram, but it depends on your personality. I have to be very drunk to throw me a pool", says the Colón fan who is going for the first fernet, after a gin, a speed with cola and two beers.
"I brought 30,000 pesos. It's my last night," he comments in slow motion.
A group of girls enjoying a bachelorette party on the night of the Bruto disco.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll
Click to one side, flash to the other, the photographer is in his element, as he swaggers to a remix of reggaeton and cachengue.
In an open-air VIP you can see the sea... you can hear it, rather.
Karen (25) and Stefany (21) are sisters from San Luis who are burning the ships of the last holiday evening.
"We came for a week on vacation and
it was only enough for one night of bowling, so we left it for last
. They recommended Bruto to us because there is good music and there is not so much quilombo. We just came to have a good time, we don't want any history" .
There are places on the wide disc where the thermal sensation suffocates.
"It's packed, there must be about 1,500 people," says David, a security expert in martial arts.
"It's a good night, busy but calm. What happens if it gets complicated with someone out of place?
We uncomplicated it without a problem. First using the dialogue and if not, well, we clear the area being expeditious"
, says this man who has been there for more than twenty years monitoring bowling nights.
Some dancers, from the staff of the Bruto bowling alley, add heat and color to the night.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll
The wave changes and
the disco becomes a field after three in the morning.
"Un'estate italiana" sounds, sung by the crowd, which gives way to "Muchachos", which is heard entirely.
The DJ, live, bets on Queen and then on Cerati, at the moment a couple of dancers go up on stage.
"You don't know what this was last weekend. Los Totora was there and it was total madness," says Magda as she poses for the photographer with her tongue sticking out.
One notices at first sight something that is a common denominator in all nightclubs according to the habitué:
there are 3 girls for every man.
"Everything is very segmented and it is not easy to break the mold. Look at the groups that are formed... There
are seven, eight women all together, on the one hand, and two or three men, together, on the other
. I am with them - points to two others- and we move in a mob, we don't dare one by one, we are to go and stand up and what God says comes out".
portrays his behavior Alvaro (33), from Buenos Aires.
Paloma (21) hugging her friend, with a free Cuba in her hand.
"I broke all year, I need fun."
Photo: Marcelo Carroll
A girl arrives at the VIP in search of the containment of her group, next to this chronicler.
She is nervous and recounts an uncomfortable scene from a few minutes ago.
Given the proximity of her, she is asked: "
A kid squeezed me badly, he faced me and without warning he gave me a pacifier... horrible
", Melina (23) catharsis, needing to tell.
"I stopped the car, I told him not to do it again, neither with me nor with anyone, because I was going to report him to security," shares this medical student from La Plata.
With her glass of vodka, Catalina (27) is made noisy by the
senior
presence .
Why do they take photos?
What do you write?", he asks, he does not ask. "We are from
Clarín
, we came to know this disco." The answer is upset and asks for explicit demonstrations. From Mar del Plata, the young woman says that for six years she has been coming to Bruto every Saturday. Look at the music, how the lights accompany, do you feel it?
It is a bowling alley with personality, with mystique
." Cata did not clarify that she always enters for free and does not pay for drinks.
A boy saw light and entered the group of women.
"They are all beautiful, I hope one will accommodate me," Joaquín yearns.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll
Paloma (21), also curious, approaches and confesses that she drank a lot.
"Three beers and now a Cuba libre. But you know what... I broke the fret all year studying, I have few subjects left and I graduated as a psychologist," says the woman from Mar del Plata.
"I have everything under control, I manage the use of my faculties", she gives explanations that nobody asked her for.
"Doesn't it happen to you that you
need to take a little to give free rein to happiness?
".
Manuela (22) is from Tandil but lives and studies in Mar del Plata.
"This place resonates with me, it's my place in the world, but sometimes I don't like the music, it's a bit for old people and it seems to me that
many times the bowling alley is overcrowded. It's not necessary so much
."
Very nice for the photo, but the security agents are expeditious when it comes to avoiding inconveniences.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll
A set by Paula Londra, Tini Stoessel and Nicki Nicole light up a night that remains even, "in a state of permanent boil", graphic Emiliano (24), from Vicente López, who arrived with two friends whom he lost sight of.
"What happened, what happened?" the boy is alarmed.
There are runs.
Two girls go to look for the nearest security.
"My brother fell, please, a doctor."
An expeditious security went to look for a lifeguard, who works for Brutus.
Later it will be known that there is medical attention in case of any eventuality.
Melanie (25), from Paraná, will say a while later that her sister
tripped and hit her head on the edge of a table.
She faded away
.
But she was attended to and the girl, dizzy, got up and walked away, accompanied by medical personnel.
Photographer and chronicler, who are over 110 years old between them, endured stoics in the bowling alley until the wee hours of the morning.
Photo;
Marcelo Carroll
They take her away by opening a fence that turns out to be a shortcut to go out into the street, which invites us to follow the same path, being almost five in the morning.
"In a while they all come out of all the nightclubs and it can be out of control. Let's go
," says the photographer with the experience of having five children.
Although there is movement along the corridor that joins the different clubs, the terrain is clear and fatigue begins to weigh on skeletons unaccustomed to intense nights like this one.
"Chssttt Chssttt", jokes David, the security: "What happens in Bruta, stays in Bruto", winks.
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