- 5/19/2025
At the end of the 19th century in Rio de Janeiro, a young man, who lives in favor of his parents' boss's house, falls madly in love with his wife's arms. She, in turn, notices the boy's almost adult traits. Dreams and desires blend with reality.
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01:00I'm going to kill you!
01:02I'm going to kill you!
01:24I'm kicking him out of here!
01:30I'm going to kill you!
01:51He's just a rascal, stupid, crazy.
01:57Inácio!
02:00Where have you been? You never listen to me.
02:04I came to tell your father everything,
02:06so he can shake his laziness with a good stick of marmalade or a stick.
02:13That's what I'm going to do.
02:15Stupid.
02:17Crazy.
02:20And look, out there it's the same as here.
02:23You confuse all the roles.
02:26You mess up the houses.
02:28You go to one office instead of the other.
02:31You change lawyers. It's the devil.
02:34It's the so-called sleep.
02:37Heavy and continuous.
02:39See you in the morning.
02:41The first one to wake up needs to break his bones.
02:44Leave it.
02:47Tomorrow, I'll wake him up with a broomstick.
02:56Eat.
02:59This happened on Rua da Lapa in 1870.
03:03Eat.
03:05For a few minutes,
03:07all you could hear was the sound of the cutlery
03:10and the chewing noise.
03:12Borges was full of lettuce and cow.
03:25He never put his eyes on Dona Severina's arms,
03:28so that he wouldn't forget himself and everything.
03:32It was also Dona Severina's fault
03:34for bringing them so naked, constantly.
03:38He only saw Dona Severina's arms,
03:40either because he looked at them secretly,
03:43or because he walked with them,
03:46imprinted in his memory.
03:56INN
04:04Inácio took as much coffee as he could.
04:07Man, you never finish.
04:15There was no medicine.
04:17Inácio drank the last drop, already cold,
04:20and left, as usual,
04:22at the back of the house.
04:29Five minutes later,
04:31seeing the waters near and the mountains far away,
04:34he regained the confused, vague, restless feeling
04:38that hurt him and did him good.
04:41He wanted to leave and stay.
04:46Father Barbeiro, in Cidade Nova,
04:48saw Borges' office,
04:51hoping to see him in the oven.
04:57He had lived there for five weeks,
05:00and life was always the same.
05:03Leaving in the morning with Borges,
05:14walking through audiences and bookshelves,
05:16running, taking papers, stamps,
05:18distributors, scribes,
05:20and justice officers.
05:35He came back in the afternoon, had dinner,
05:38and gathered himself in his room,
05:40going to sleep.
05:46Five weeks of loneliness, of unpleasant work,
05:49away from his mother and sisters,
05:51five weeks of silence.
05:55Let me be, he thought.
05:57One day I'll run away and never come back.
06:05He didn't.
06:06He felt clasped and chained
06:09by Dona Severina's arms.
06:13He'd never seen others so beautiful and so fresh.
06:22The education he had didn't allow him
06:24to face them openly.
06:26It seemed that at first he kept his eyes closed.
06:29He faced them little by little,
06:32seeing that they had no other sleeves,
06:35and so he discovered them,
06:38looking and loving them.
06:40At the end of three weeks,
06:42it was them morally speaking
06:44to their tents of rest.
06:52He put up with all the hard work from outside,
06:54all the melancholy of loneliness and silence,
06:56all the rudeness of the boss,
06:58for the only payment of seeing,
07:00three times a day,
07:02the famous pair of arms.
07:10Dona Severina, in the front room,
07:12recaptured the dinner episode
07:14and for the first time,
07:16distrusted something.
07:18She rejected the idea right away,
07:20a child.
07:22But there are ideas that come from the family of stubborn flies.
07:25As much as we shake them,
07:27they turn and land.
07:33The child was fifteen years old.
07:38He did not admire that she began to love.
07:42And she was not beautiful.
07:45This other idea was not rejected.
07:48Before it was drowned and kissed.
07:54And then he remembered their ways,
07:57the forgetfulness, the distractions,
07:59and one more incident and another.
08:03All were symptoms and concluded that yes.
08:08Severina!
08:10Severina!
08:12What do you have?
08:14You are pale.
08:16What worries you? Do you feel anything?
08:18I have nothing.
08:20I was just resting.
08:23Resting?
08:25It seems that in this house
08:27everyone is sleeping.
08:29You can leave it.
08:31I know a good medicine
08:33to get the sleep out of the sleepyheads.
08:35You are mistaken.
08:37I was not sleeping.
08:39I was...
08:41thinking of the Fortunata bed.
08:43We have been visiting it since Christmas.
08:45Why don't we go there one night?
08:47Oh, no.
08:49For God's sake.
08:51I'm tired. I'm working a lot.
08:53The bed is a talker. I can't stand it.
08:56Don't talk like that, poor thing.
08:59Talk like this.
09:01Talk with your elbows.
09:03And it's malicious.
09:05Unlike the husband who doesn't say anything
09:07because she doesn't let him.
09:09All this is your implication.
09:11You have a good heart.
09:13That's what you think.
09:15We are poor.
09:17But those people have a lot to do with our Inácio.
09:19Because now it's ours.
09:21It's my fault.
09:23Don't say those ugly things.
09:25I don't know why you defend
09:27those people so much.
09:29Because we all have flaws, my dear.
09:31And I'm here to point them out.
09:33Including ours.
09:35Don't make me shut up.
09:39Don't get mad.
09:41Where is that smile?
09:45Where?
09:49Now that I've smiled,
09:51let's eat something.
09:53You worked so hard.
09:55How about we go to bed earlier?
10:01The night fell.
10:03Borges, tired of the day,
10:05because he was really a first-class worker,
10:07went,
10:09closed his eyes and fell asleep.
10:13And left her alone in the room,
10:15in the dark,
10:17with him and with the discovery he had made.
10:25Everything seemed to say to the lady that it was true.
10:27But this truth,
10:29disfigured by the impression of amazement,
10:31brought him a moral complication.
10:39On that day,
10:41Dona Severina was looking
10:43under Inácio's eyes.
10:45She couldn't find anything
10:47because the coffee time was short
10:49and the boy didn't take his eyes off the cup.
10:55On the next day,
10:57she was able to observe better.
11:05And in the others,
11:07she noticed perfectly
11:09that she was loved and feared.
11:25She was already convinced
11:27that he was a child,
11:29and agreed to treat him
11:31as dryly as up to that point,
11:33or even more.
11:55I'm sorry to bother you, Dona Severina.
11:57It's nothing.
12:01She came home and didn't leave.
12:03Dona Severina's arms
12:05closed in parentheses
12:07in the middle of the long
12:09and tedious period of her life.
12:13Inácio,
12:15I'm sorry to bother you.
12:17It's nothing.
12:19She came home and didn't leave.
12:21Inácio,
12:23I'm sorry to bother you.
12:27And this interspersed prayer
12:29brought an original and deep idea
12:31invented by Heaven
12:33only for him.
12:37He would let himself be
12:39and walk.
12:41After all,
12:43he had to leave
12:45and never again.
12:47Inácio,
12:49don't drink cold water after coffee.
12:51The roughness of his voice seemed to be over
12:53and there was more than softness.
12:55There was carelessness and affection.
13:03Inácio's agitation was growing
13:05without him being able to calm down
13:07or understand himself.
13:09He was not well at all.
13:17He would wake up at night
13:19thinking of Dona Severina.
13:27On the street,
13:29he would change corners,
13:31miss doors,
13:33much more than dance.
13:37And he didn't see the woman far away
13:39or near him
13:41who didn't bring him the memory.
13:49When he entered the corridor of the house,
13:51coming back from work,
13:53he always felt some grumpy,
13:55sometimes big.
14:03Inácio!
14:05Inácio!
14:09Good afternoon,
14:11Dona Severina.
14:19Good afternoon.
14:49Inácio realized for the first time
14:51a fragility in his gaze
14:53and felt stronger.
15:19Inácio,
15:21after a long time,
15:23realized
15:25that his gaze
15:27had changed.
15:29He saw
15:31a woman
15:33who was
15:35standing
15:37in front of him.
15:39She was
15:41very beautiful.
15:43She was
15:45very beautiful.
15:47she was
15:49very beautiful.
15:51She was
15:53very beautiful.
15:57Look at what you saw.
15:59It was disaster.
16:01It could only be you.
16:03Excuse me, sir Borges.
16:05Look here.
16:07In the forum,
16:09just call me Doctor,
16:11got it?
16:13Have you handed over the search warrant?
16:16I just did, doctor.
16:18Good.
16:19And the petitions, have they all been distributed?
16:22All of them, doctor.
16:23Let me see.
16:24Do you see these three cases here?
16:29This one and this one.
16:31Yes, of course, doctor.
16:33Take them home tonight.
16:35I need to study them. They are very important cases.
16:39Keep them as if they were your own life, understand?
16:43I have no doubt, doctor.
16:45Then go.
16:51Illumina.
17:12Illumina.
17:43Where is he?
17:46If I find him, I'll kill him!
17:49Calm down, please, calm down.
17:51I'll kill this moron!
17:53Look at his feet and his spine!
17:56Calm down.
17:57Do you want a glass of water?
18:01Proceedings that were under my responsibility!
18:04Let's try to talk.
18:05Destroyed! Destroyed!
18:07Destroyed!
18:10I asked him to bring the cases home.
18:12I trusted him.
18:14That's it, we have to try to explain.
18:19What do I do now?
18:21How do I face the plaintiffs?
18:25The lawyers? The judge?
18:29If he shows up in front of me, I'll kill him.
18:32I'll go crazy.
18:33Calm down.
18:35Sit here.
18:36Rest a little.
18:37I'll try to dry them.
18:40If he shows up for dinner, I'll kick him out of here!
18:45What if we try to dry them?
18:49In the set, he was floating by the sea.
18:54He was...
18:55He let the papers fly.
18:59What a moron!
19:06What a moron!
19:24Excuse me.
19:25Yes, Ms. Severina.
19:27Is Borges there?
19:29He's furious with you.
19:30We didn't say anything so he wouldn't hear us.
19:32I just came to tell him not to show up for dinner until he calms down.
19:36Okay?
19:38Okay.
19:41I'll see what I can do.
19:42I'd rather save the breakfast for tomorrow.
19:46Be careful.
19:50Sleep well.
20:02Where is he?
20:10Didn't he come for breakfast?
20:13He must be scared of yesterday's screams.
20:17Besides, he's still afraid.
20:21This is wrong.
20:24After all, I'm his friend.
20:28He's been my barber for years.
20:29I owe him my satisfaction.
20:33You know what?
20:35I'm going to call him.
20:38That's it.
20:40I thought he wouldn't come anymore.
20:43Sit down.
20:46Excuse me.
20:48Yes.
20:56Listen carefully.
20:59About the accident at Beira Mar.
21:04Don't talk about it again for God's sake.
21:13Dona Severina was proud to save Ignacio from Borges' claws.
21:43Ignacio, please.
21:55Bring me that watering can.
22:23Borges continued, enjoying the sweet presence of Ignacio by his side.
23:23Then, one Sunday, he never forgot that Sunday.
23:51It was a beautiful Sunday.
23:53It wasn't just a Christian Sunday.
23:55It was an immense universal Sunday.
24:25It was a beautiful Sunday.
24:53It was a beautiful Sunday.
25:22It was a beautiful Sunday.
25:45Borges spent the rest of the day in his room, reading one of the letters he brought with him.
25:50Tales from other times.
26:00He could never understand why all the heroines of these old stories had the same face and cut as Dona Severina.
26:08But the truth is that they did.
26:13Half an hour later, he dropped the leaflet and put his eyes on the wall.
26:27Where, five minutes later, the lady of his care left.
26:34It was natural for her to be astonished, but she wasn't.
26:38Although with her eyelids closed, she saw herself detached from everything.
26:43It was herself.
26:45It was her own arms.
26:47It is true, however, that Dona Severina couldn't leave the wall so much
26:51She was right in the front room, listening to the steps of the soloist who went down the stairs.
27:21Suddenly, she remembered that Ignacio ate little before lunch and had a shortness of breath, and warned that he could be ill.
27:30It could be that he was very ill.
27:33Dona Severina felt the beating of her heart and retreated.
28:04A child, she said to herself, in that language, without words, that we all bring with us.
28:16It seems that the sleep gave Ignacio's adolescence a more accentuated expression, almost feminine, almost poetic.
28:30Dreaming of the night with him, it could be that he was dreaming of her.
28:35Since dawn, the figure of the young man walked before his eyes like a diabolical temptation.
28:42It was enough to see him with his head bowed, his arm down, but at the same time that I thought he was a child, I thought he was beautiful, much more beautiful than awake.
29:09And one of these ideas corrected or corrupted the other.
29:39And one of these ideas corrected or corrupted the other.
30:09And one of these ideas corrupted or corrupted the other.
30:34He came back slowly and spied on him.
30:47He saw that he was sleeping deeply.
30:50The child had a hard sleep.
30:52The rumor that shook him so much did not even make him change his position.
30:58And she continued to see him sleep, sleep and maybe dream.
31:04And she continued to see him sleep, sleep and maybe dream.
31:13That we cannot see the dreams of each other.
31:16That we cannot see the dreams of each other.
31:31Dona Severina would have seen herself in the imagination of the boy.
31:36She would have seen herself in front of the bed, smiling and still.
31:40Then, leaning, taking them in her hands, taking them to her chest, crossing her arms, the famous arms.
31:54Two, three and four times, the figure faded away.
31:59To become soon, coming from the sea or from another place.
32:30To become soon, coming from the sea or from another place.
32:41And becoming, leaning, taking them in her hands again and crossing her arms to her chest.
32:50Until, leaning, even more, much more, she brushed her lips and left him a kiss on the mouth.
33:02Here, the dream coincided with reality and the same mouths joined in the imagination and out of it.
33:20The difference is that the vision did not retreat and the real person, so in a hurry to fulfill the gesture,
33:29as she fled to the door, closed and fearful.
33:50In fact, the child had a hard sleep.
33:53Nothing opened his eyes, not even the failures with you, not even the real kisses.
34:08But if the fear went away, the veil remained and grew.
34:12Dona Severina could not believe that she did that.
34:17Whatever it was, she was confused, irritated, bored badly with herself and badly with him.
34:24The fear that he could be pretending to be sleeping, pointed to his soul and gave him a chill.
34:31But the truth is that he slept a lot and only woke up for dinner.
34:51He sat down at the table quickly, while he found Dona Severina quiet and severe,
34:59and Borges so harsh as in the other days.
35:03Neither the harshness of one nor the severity of the other could dissipate the gracious vision
35:10that still brought with it or soften the sensation of the kiss.
35:16He did not notice that Dona Severina had a scarf that covered his arms.
35:21He noticed later, on Monday...
35:25Can I have a piece of cheese?
35:27Please.
35:28And on Tuesday too.
35:31And until Saturday, which was the day that Borges told his father that he could not stay with him.
35:45If you need me for anything, look for me.
36:01Yes, sir.
36:02And you, Dona Severina?
36:06She is in her room.
36:07She has a lot of headaches.
36:10Tomorrow or the day after, come say goodbye.
36:15Good night.
36:46Ignacio left without understanding anything.
36:50He did not understand the farewell or the complete change of Dona Severina.
36:56It does not matter, he took with him the taste of the dream.
37:04And through the years, through other loves, more effective and long,
37:10he never found a sensation like that Sunday, on Rua da Lapa, when he was 15 years old.
37:20He even exclaims sometimes, not knowing that he is mistaken.
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