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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 movie was real or in his head.


Quite 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_W...


I 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.


In the TR commentary, Verhoeven says the second half is a brain-damaged dream of Quaid’s.


Maybe, 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.




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