Desperate, he lunged for the VCR and yanked the tape out. The screen went black. Silence.
Lucas wasn't in his living room anymore. He was seven years old, sitting on a linoleum floor in a school that smelled of crayons and floor wax. A dubbed memory. His own memory. efeito borboleta 1 dublado
“Lucas? Por que você está chorando? O que aconteceu com a sua voz?” Desperate, he lunged for the VCR and yanked the tape out
But the room wasn't his room anymore. The furniture was different. His mother was younger, standing in the doorway, confused. Lucas wasn't in his living room anymore
He saw himself—little Lucas—crying because his father had left. But then, a voiceover echoed, not in the original Portuguese, but in the exact tone of that actor: “Se você pudesse voltar e mudar uma coisa… você mudaria?”
(If you could go back and change one thing… would you?)