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I liked the idea of Screamers, how the robots started self replicating and took over. Also liked Total Recall, I was never sure if the whole second part of the
by thijson 1y ago
I liked the idea of Screamers, how the robots started self replicating and took over. Also liked Total Recall, I was never sure if the whole second part of the movie was real or in his head.
- WCSTombs 1y agoI think the confusion about Total Recall's reality is intentional. My view: there are scenes in the movie that are not from Quaid's point of view and that Quaid could not have direct knowledge of. That seems to imply that it's real.
- ljf 1y agoMaybe, but when I'm dreaming I don't always see things from my point of view and I'm often an observer without me clearly being in the dream at all.
- Hard_Space 1y agoIn the TR commentary, Verhoeven says the second half is a brain-damaged dream of Quaid’s.
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- MattPalmer1086 1y agoQuite a lot of Philip K Dick's stories mess with your sense of what's real, quite intentionally. The short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", on which Total Recall is based, is a fun read - it's not quite the same as the movie. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Wholesale https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_W...