#Movie: Total Recall (1990). P.K. Dick invites us to ponder: is Douglas Quaid a humble construction worker who dreams that he's a secret agent on Mars, or is it the other way around? A. Schwarzenegger's and S. Stone's involvement makes the answer kind of obvious. And there's about half an hour of gratuitous fight scenes. Grade: OK.
@mrundkvist
Actually, the construction worker bit came after AS was cast.
I like both interpretations. I think he went to Mars. But it tickles me to think it might be fake.
Don't watch the remake.
@mrundkvist
In my own head canon the Philip K. Dick short story infects the logic of the movie which leaves you with two very different interpretations.
1 - The reality of the situation is so fantastic that no conventional story logic can invalidate it (anything that you would interpret as clues are just independent coincidences or reversed logic)
2 - If you can't accept #1 then absolutely nothing can be trusted
Viewed this way it's a superior #PKD experience imho #SciFi#movies#totalrecall
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