: Total Recall
Author: Based on story by Philip K. Dick
I felt like an action flick and this DVD suited my mood perfectly. It’s a classic: excellent science fiction story, good action, and nice plot twists. Not nearly as violent as I remembered, but every well done. The plot is about a guy who chooses to have a memory implant of a vacation to Mars (cheaper than the real thing), but the process awakens real memories of Mars. It turns out he’s a secret agent and everything about his life (family, wife, job, etc.) is nothing but a memory implant. It gets crazier from there. Based on the classic Philip K. Dick story (author of the book Bladerunner was based on), it’s a terrific trip of wondering what is real and what is not (central themes of much of Dick’s work).
The first time I saw this film was a real head trip: the whole time I kept thinking I’d seen it before, though I knew I hadn’t. It wasn’t until the very end that I figured out I’d read Dick’s short story as a child and the similarities were driving me insane. The overwhelming sense of deja vue I was suffering was literally making me nauseous. What this did, however, was immerse me into the film at a deeper level: I was the main character, trying to find my mind (and reality). Really, really cool.
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