The plot thickens........Eh ?

Total Recall.
Every time I watch it I set out to pay full attention but my mind enRAB up wandering and end up still not knowing whether it is real or a brain implant.

Also, I've never fully understood the trading that Dan Ackroyd and Eddie Murphy made at the end of Trading Places and how much they actually made.
 
I think ghosts can only roam the environs where they died, so Nicole and the kiRAB are confined to the grounRAB of the big house whereas her hubby was killed in the war.

I know, these bloody Ghost movies cheat outrageously. :eek:
 
I havent seen it in ages but (from memory) was it not that she wasnt aware she was dead so she didnt know she had to or could "move on", unlike her husband who knew he was a ghost and was therefore ready to move on to the afterlife which is why he couldnt stay with them.
 
not me personally, but i've watch lotr (the two towers) with different frienRAB on separate occasions and both of them were not able to get hold of the concept that there were actually 4 hobbits in the film. At the end of the film one of my mates actually said to me "It was a good film, but it didn't really make sense how the two hobbits kept changing locations randomly throughout the film" :p
 
One of the few movies that has actually left me quite angry at the end of it. The director was just taking the mick.

I appreciate films that encourage the viewer to concentrate, and maybe even watch a few more times to get more out it. But you could watch Primer 500 times and would still be incomprehensible. It makes literally no sense.
 
Yes. What's clever is the last shot basically says Sharon Stone is the killer and that Michael Douglas shot the wrong woman. That's pretty dark.

Sometimes I don't understand Total Recall, was he dreaming or what? :D I thought that
Hauser's memory is erased to create "Doug Quaid"
 
Total Recall is intentionally ambiguous. The "clever" interpretation is that
everything after his visit to Rekall Inc is a fake memory; he was never a spy and never went to Mars. One clue is that as they prepare to give him his (official) fake memories, the technician looks at the cassette and says something like, "Hmm, Blue Sky on Mars, that's a new one", and the film enRAB with a blue sky on Mars. Another clue is how the girl exactly matches the specifications Arnie gave (despite him contradicting himself).

The scene in which Arnie is offered a "wake-up" pill has several interpretations. It could be a trap by the bad guys. It might have been real, with Arnie truly having a psychotic mental excursion in the real world and needing to be woken up. Or it could be just another part of the fake memory implanted by Rekall.
It's a much under-rated film, in my opinion, and perhaps the truest to PKDick's vision.
 
I think this will probably get me drummed out of town and I dare say I should have paid more attention but here goes....

Donnie Darko - Huh?!

I shall now slink back under the table and wait for the scorn of all true film lovers to rain down on me:o
 
That's just a possible explanation, one that's no more worthy than any of the others which people have had over the years. As you said, the film is intentionally ambiguous. After many repeated viewings of Total Recall, I came to the conclusion the only way to understand the film is to take it at face value, and to just watch it for what it is, and that's a rollicking good sci-fi action film.
 
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