The adjective fatal, from the Latin word fatālis , refers to that which is bad, sad or tragic. The fatal usually has definitive consequences or very difficult to reverse.
For example: "The young man suffered a fatal car accident while on his way to his parents' house" , "A fatal fight outside the stadium ended with one man dead and three seriously injured" , "The boy ingested a fatal dose of the drug and died a few hours later ” .
The fatal is unfortunate or unfortunate. If an elderly person slips in the shower and dies as a result of a blow to the head when falling, it can be said that this person suffered a fatal accident.
What is bad is also classified as fatal. A journalist can claim that a basketball (basketball) player had a fatal game if he missed all seven shots he took, lost six balls, and committed five personal fouls. In a similar vein, an individual who was late for work due to a breakdown in his car, lost his glasses, and learned of a health problem from a friend, had a fatal day.
In numerous cultural works the term in question has been used to title them. This would be the case, for example, of the American film "Fatal Attraction", which was released in 1987 and was directed by Adrian Lyne. It had a total of six Oscar nominations.
Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer are the actors who star in this psychological suspense film that tells the story of a married man who decides to have an affair with a strange woman to whom he is very attracted. The situation between the lovers will get complicated when she follows him everywhere, tries to spend with him all the time, begins to investigate aspects of his private life, begins to get closer to his family…
In the same way, we cannot ignore the existence of the novel "Fatal", written by Jean-Patrick Manchette and published in 1972. It is a work of the noir genre that revolves around a murderer and her peculiar motivations to carry out the crime of different characters.
The expression fatal woman, on the other hand, alludes to a member of the female gender who, due to her charms, exerts an irresistible attraction on men. The fatal thing would be given, according to this criterion, in that the man would be able to do anything - even something unfortunate - in order to be with the woman in question. Even a fatal woman is often considered to be one who appeals to her sensuality to obtain benefits from the men she captivates.
Likewise, we cannot ignore that one of the most popular songs in the history of music in Spain is "What is a girl like you doing in a place like this?" she also has in her lyrics that concept of a fatal woman. Specifically, it goes like this: «Fatal woman, always with problems. What do you have in your eyes, baby? Or is it that you are going to cry?