Total Recall Movie Ending...Explained

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Movie Endings Explained - TOTAL RECALL (1990) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paul Verhoeven sci-fi action
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Movie endings, they're usually pretty straight forward right? Everything pays off, the main characters learn something, and our heroes ride off into the sunset. Sometimes though, we don't get the typical ending from a movie, we get something much more nuanced, complex and open ended. The kind of endings that leave things up in the air for all of us to debate and theorise on until we're blue in the face. With Movie Endings Explained, we aim to delve into some of the more ambiguous and mysterious endings to films that have left audiences scratching their heads for years, and to attempt to explain them. In most cases, a definitive answer isn't really there, so we definitely want to hear from YOU on how you interpret the various endings we'll be discussing with this series.
This time we take a look at the 1990 sci-fi action classic TOTAL RECALL from director Paul Verhoeven (ROBOCOP, BASIC INSTINCT), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (THE TERMINATOR, PREDATOR). The mind bending tale, based on a Philip K. Dick short story, sees the lead character Douglas Quaid recover lost memories of his undercover past, before ending up on Mars, kicking ass and quipping one liners at anyone who'll listen. A key plot point in TOTAL RECALL is the virtual reality memory facility that Quaid visits at the beginning of the movie, because by the film's conclusion, it could be reasoned that the entire movie after that point is part of the implanted memory. We delve into the reasons for and against the events of the film being the dreams of Quaid or the reality of Hauser, along with director Paul Verhoeven's recent statement on the debate!
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@SniffHeinkel 4 года назад

"Directed by Paul Verhoeven of Showgirls fame" He also filmed this little movie you may have heard of. Its called ROBOCOP.

@davidhonez8859 4 года назад

Falling down, but lets go with the worst one, why not.

@Constantine_IA 5 лет назад

BEST.ENDING.EVER. What a masterpiece

@juliansspace4754 6 лет назад

If you like blondes: Dream. If you like brunettes: Reality.

@davidhonez8859 4 года назад

I definetly like brunettes

@saidazenzar2874 4 года назад

Brunettes iT is Then !!!

@cheesewheel 3 года назад

But... I like both

@williammatthews693 3 года назад

Both it is!

@mexicomics 5 лет назад

I just noticed when the lab programming technician asks Quaid how he likes his women (demure, aggressive, wanton as shown on the screen), The "WANTON" option gets automatically selected followed by the "DEMURE" option BEFORE Arnold replies and BOTH get selected prior the "ego trip". Also, the lab assistant says something like "this is something new, blue skies" which reveals at the end of the movie when indeed the sky turns out to be blue. So, I now believe it is only a dream the moment he goes under at the Rekall laboratory sofa/chair.

@danielwilliamson6180 7 лет назад

Total Recall is a classic. It is a sci-fi action mystery thriller that keeps you guessing and at the end of the film it leaves it to the audience to decide if it is real or fantasy.

@danielwilliamson6180 6 лет назад

It's what I think.

@danielwilliamson6180 6 лет назад

At the end of the movie, we never really find out it if it is real or fantasy.

@folksurvival 6 лет назад

You're just stating the obvious.

@Err5689 5 лет назад

I believe the flashing light at the end, where they kiss, Could well be Doug getting lobotomized back at Recall!!

@Zenn3k 4 года назад

Nah, its just him waking up.

@davidhonez8859 4 года назад

I have read that is the most common interpertation.

@jayh9529 3 года назад

Switching on 5g

@LonicGheshu 7 лет назад

Excellent breakdown and exactly how I viewed the movie. I've watched it several times sometimes seeing it through 'reality' and sometimes as the dream. Both make sense and are equally enjoyable. ... The remake wasn't a patch on the original.

@JoBloOriginals 7 лет назад

Cheers and thanks!

@tonyhsloanejr 7 лет назад

Colin Hughes or was a dream they tell you in the movie if you pay attention

@fanfiction.netadaptations558 6 лет назад

The remake shouldn't have existed in the first place .

@CenturianEagle 6 лет назад

tony x no...

@Di3ago 5 лет назад

tony x was a dream?

@frankbytheway6637 5 лет назад

You forgot the last two lines of the movie: What if this is all just a dream? Well, then you better kiss me before it ends.

@Andy2481 6 лет назад

as a kid I thought it was real. As I got older I see it was all a dream inside his head. notice when Arnold's character goes through the x-ray detector and it shows his gun but not the chip in his head. Also the amount of bullets he fires in that 1 clip is unrealistic when getting away on the subway. And the other stuff explained in this video like the woman he choose to be his girlfriend on mars is the same person etc. great movie, should have neve been remade.

@cdubb2447 6 лет назад

Andy B Then how is he having dreams of walking the mountains of mars with Melina?

@brandonthomas1492 6 лет назад

And if the chip was visible wouldn't that be a dead give away.or cause him to go to a doctor and get it taken out plus this is the future I if they can make machine that add and take your memories , I think they can make a chip undectable.

@cdubb2447 6 лет назад

It's paradoxical, there's is conclusive evidence for both sides. Melina can't be simultaneously in his dreams and 41A at Rekall. The only explanation that facilitates both ego-trip and reality would be if it was a regular dream from start to finish.

@Stormprobe 6 лет назад

That's one hell of a dream. Is it even possible to have a movie length dream?

@rogelioaguilar9799 6 лет назад

Andy B it has a remake, with collin farrel, does it.count ?

@zombiecatcher 7 лет назад

i thought when Arnold says "2 headed monsters?" it was a clear reference to kuato. this is before the assistant says "blue skies on mars"

@borgpunk 6 лет назад

The 2 headed monster on the screen was looking nothing like Kuato. And it could simply be a coincidence

@youtubearchive3668 5 лет назад

The truth is both answers are correct more or less

@SniffHeinkel 4 года назад

If it was all just a dream how do you explain Quaid's wife's insistence that he puts Mars out of his mind? Shes very persistent about it. When he suggests they move to Mars she suggests they go see the "Rings of Saturn". Later when he goes to Rekall the guy he talks to suggests a Saturn vacation package. Coincidence? And this is all before he even has the procedure done.

@Zenn3k 4 года назад

@@SniffHeinkel Its not ALL created from the company, they import parts of it, but clearly his own imagination has some impact on the dream he experiences.

@bsharp6856 5 лет назад

There may not be a "definitive" ending, but for the observant viewer, there is one answer which is better than the other. As someone below notes, the tech says "Blue Skies on Mars, that's new" and in the end of the dream there are blue skies on Mars. When they give Quaid a sedative it leaves a red needle mark on his neck. But when he "wakes up" and goes raging around Rekall, the red mark is gone. He isn't really awake. The Rekall salesman promises Quaid a stay in the luxurious Hilton Hotel which is where he stays in the dream, though there is absolutely no reason for a real secret agent to stay there. There is a scruffy Best Western Hotel right in Venusville where the real Hauser (there isn't one) would have stayed in his undercover role as a rebel in Venusville. When Dr. Edgemar comes into the dream to warn Quaid, he tells him that if he doesn't swallow the pill and shoots him, "The walls of reality will come crashing down...you will be Cohaagen's best buddy, .etc. etc." After Quaid shoots Edgemar, the walls literally crash down around him he finds out he is really Cohaagen's best buddy, and everything else Dr. Edgemar says will happen does happen. When this movie first begins, there is a certain scary music playing as Quaid's Mars dream ends. The same scary music plays as the movie ends implying that this has been a dream and that Quaid will indeed be lobotomized, as Dr. Edgemar warned.

@halasimov1362 6 лет назад

Great work! One of the best films ever and you reviewed it in justice! [Subscribed]

@SnowyRivr 4 года назад

My take: if it is a dream then it is a schizoid-embolism dream and not a Recall implant. Why? Imagine how much trouble Recall would get in selling that as an ego-trip. He would wake up hating his wife. If the memories feel real, then he wouldn't be able to be comfortable going back to her. "All is forgiven, it was just a dream - but it feels totally real..." God knows that when I wake up from a dream where weird things happen with real people, I have trouble dealing with the emotional repercussions, and that's a dream where the memory of it fades FAST. If they were selling ego-trips like that, they would be formulas for causing divorces, and they would get sued instantly. In short, they wouldn't do it. If the story somehow had simply gotten his wife out of the way, instead of having her be one of the "bad guys", then I could believe that it was all just the ego-trip. So, from my perspective, the more likely option is that it is real, though it could still be a schizoid-embolism dream, but it could not be a Recall implant dream.

@leejohnstone6512 5 лет назад

We all have our dream girl. For Quaid that's Melina and he's always watching the news. Specifically reports on Mars. Add in the ego trip and it all adds up

@RexBanner_ 4 года назад

It was all a dream! I used to read Word Up magazine..

@nativeam25 3 года назад

Then why was the blond wife trying to dissuade him away from Mars in the beginning of the film he had dreams about it in the 1st place before anything happened Also in implant was in his head

@nativeam25 3 года назад

Also they had suspicion of him questioning mars in the beginning like his coworker. On top of that how would he remember what the antagonist are doing. Its a memory.

@Anfimus Год назад

Salt n peppa n heavy d up in the limousine

@tonysnow7477 4 года назад

I believe he was the man who got lobotomized.

@ylette 6 лет назад

None of it is real, even before he goes to Rekall. It's all just a fictional movie.

@scotscub76 6 лет назад

Cruzer 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@jasonwilliams5550 6 лет назад

Cruzer :lol:

@YusufAli-qh1zd 5 лет назад

Barz

@michaelmcdonnell3905 4 года назад

There have been plenty of "it was all dream" stuff where the dream wasn't all from the dreamer's perspective. Verhoeven stated on the audio commentary the scene where he goes berserk saying "my name is not Quaid" was build in to make him think it's all real, same with all the scenes without Quaid they were all created to give the illusion that reality has never stopped.

@ForcesofRandomness 5 лет назад

I always thought it was a dream within a dream like Doug is dreaming about going to Recall to dream about everything the doctor told him.

@attackofthecopyrightbots 6 лет назад

the director said it could be both (even though he said in the dvd commentary before that that it was a dream) which is why there are small plotholes to you can use to justify either theory. basically the director put in hints that could support either so theres no *Right* answer which is kinda cool but at the same time sucks. even considering the book but still either theory is viable because both theories have small plotholes

@borgpunk 6 лет назад

What is interesting with hte commentairy is that while filming it, they were deffenetely planning for a sequel, in the script it had douglas quaid as a real person, so back then, they kept both option open, but hoped for him being real.

@PryorTravis 2 года назад

I guess because it was an Arnold movie, I took it at face value when I first saw it. It wasn't until I saw it again on TV a few years later that I started wondering if his initial wake-up sequence where the whole thing went wrong was actually the beginning of the Total Recall program and he really got his money's worth.

@damianstarks3338 3 года назад

Perfect explanation to this classic sci fi action masterpiece.

@desmondsawyer1471 Месяц назад

Paul Verhoeven is a genius! Man I wish this man directed more movies!

@BoardwalkNo32 3 года назад

Thank you!! The programmer blue sky on mars is what brought me hear.And you spoke on it thanx.

@ernestolombardo5811 5 лет назад

Same as the final act of Minority Report, then. "Will I dream?" - "In here, all your dreams come true."

@CuddaBrown 6 лет назад

Top notch stuff guys...

@DuncanPerryOfficial 3 года назад

Great film but my biggest problem is the dream of Melina at the beginning and the willingness to go to recall in the first place. This suggests that maybe it wasn't a dream and that as part of being undercover in the first place. Also the new memory 'blue sky on Mars' could of come from Cohaagen to set his initial memories off about the Aliens secret. Also the agency knew about Melina and most likely had her details on file as they couldn't get close their group as Kuato was a psychic like Cohaagen said. As for the metal detector and the bug, the scanners weren't picking up on small objects such as zips and necklaces when people were walking through so it's all up for interpretation but I like the idea of him saving Mars for real 😉

@tonyhsloanejr 7 лет назад

it's was a dream it's so obvious how can people miss the moment they reveal it.

@cdubb2447 6 лет назад

Then how is he having dreams of walking the mountains of mars with Melina before he even knows Rekall exists?

@dirtyharry1881 6 лет назад

Melina is his dream-woman beforehand and he projects her image into the phantasy-Mars of Rekall.

@borgpunk 6 лет назад

As said in this, there really is no correct answer. It was planned to make a Total Recall 2, and that would have revealed that this was in fact reality.. I am so happy that the whole idea was instead turned into "The minority report" so this discussion today is still never ending.

@CenturianEagle 6 лет назад

Roberto Borgen wow really!? I love both movies so much (the original total recall, and the minority report with Tom cruise) they’re both so atmospheric and amazing

@victorfergn 5 лет назад

The doctor even predicts Hauser and Cohagen are best pals

@dominican5683 3 года назад

This whole movie is amazing, one of Arnold's best roles

@maxsamuel1253 6 лет назад

Sharon Stone was so damn hot

@synexthebarbarian8006 2 года назад

It was all a dream!!! I use to read word up magazine...

@joeymerk3706 5 лет назад

Remember seeing this the night it came out back in 1990. Absolutely loved it. I was 15 and was completely blown away. I always thought it was all really happening but I guess it might not have.

@Altinget 5 лет назад

Scientificly it would be impossible to fill up the Mars surface with air in the time one can hold the breath, or if one could, then it would be air pressure difference like in a constant explosion that probably would rip your lungs apart.

@Vagolyk 5 лет назад

I just saw it, wanted to see it for a long time now. It was magnificent.

@filipbartas576 Год назад

@@Altinget Martian technology tho...

@LexFelron 2 года назад

Hey, he said HE couldn't distinguish between the dream and reality, and the movie did it to us too.. Brilliant! ♥️♥️♥️

@ferntheplant1988 7 лет назад

I think he's been there that explains why he dreams of Mars in the beginning of the movie. like dreams they feel so real but when you wake up they are just that a dream.... at the end he wakes up goes home amazed only for that memory of the dream to fade away and then he gets the urge to go again on another trip.

@todayinhistory2804 4 года назад

If a tree falls in the woods and there is no one and nothing around to hear it. Does it make a sound/noise? The answer is no. Sound is a wave that itself is not sound or noise. It only becomes a sound when the non-audible waves hit something that can turn those waves into a sound. So if there was literally nothing in the path or area of the tree falling for say a million miles, there would be no sound for that million miles, just waves waiting to be turned into a sound and heard. Do do do do do do do do

@Anfimus Год назад

Na. Sound is sound regardless if an ear is there to hear it.

@plusplusgive Год назад

I vote dream for this reason: At the very end the screen turns completely white. In all other action REALITY movies the screen goes black. That had to be there to symbolize something. Maybe that is how recall is able to signify the end to your memory

@Clarensee 6 лет назад

You know what occurred to me while watching a Kurtwood Smith's interview? He should've been incorporated into Total Recall as a looney professor in the second mind implant/extraction scene and the whole scene should've been extended. Would fit that role great.

@wibblewobble1934 4 года назад

The fact that people still argue about it today is testiment to the brilliance of this movie. I'm more in the reality camp than the dream camp still :)

@1997residente 2 года назад

"Directed by Paul Verhoeven of Showgirls fame" i´m dying !

@umangmuscle 6 лет назад

excellent explanation by the director, both interpretations are viable......

@WheelChairWorria 6 лет назад

🤔 You sir have blown my mind 🤯

@JVST1000 7 лет назад

Another larger way of looking at it is: The movie begins with him dreaming to be on Mars with his dream girl. Then falls of a mountain and dies. The movie ends with him dreaming to be on Mars with his dream girl. Then falls of a mountain and lives. The movie is about how the dream sadventure goes horribly wrong and is taken over by the subconsciousness of Quaid. His mind then slowly takes it to where he wants to be.... saved on the side of this mountain with his Girlfriend by his side.

@plato898 5 лет назад

My question with this movie has always been that if it is a dream what about when he wakes up? When he realizes that it’s all a dream what happens to him.

@grahamm5982 5 лет назад

It was all implanted what he paid a measly 300 credits for! The film emphases this and at the end he wakes up.

@elitebum4184 5 месяцев назад

The part that solidifies my thoughts are when she tells her boss they didn’t implant the dream yet a meaningless part of dialogue except for the audience to affirm its real

@Georgedelacy 5 лет назад

I think the outcome of planet saving and double agent is just too fun to take this all as a dream. I love how we get no answer and never will.

@kayz7077 5 лет назад

I love this! I love to view the movie this way, as both plots existing. Sometimes when I watch, I will do so with the belief that it is reality, and then by the end I am so unsure! I will also watch, and do the opposite (thinking it is the rekall implant) and have the same outcome. Absolutely one of my favorite films, top 5!

@vinnyc.1265 5 лет назад

Even if he said "blue sky on mars." It could all just be something that was repressed by his sub conscience by the agency.

@Vagolyk 5 лет назад

Though it seems overwhelming evidence, the argument of the doc behind that it is a delusion is only that, these events are unlikely.Which is rather convincing considering the over the top action sequences.

@michaelmcdonnell3905 3 года назад

It could be a dream loop, each time there's a loop there's different outcomes.

@glaivedacier 4 года назад

7:20 I call that pissing your pants _ take no risk and give no real answer because you are unable to give any. You gave one that sounded like an answer but that was full of second-hand thinking and gloriously empty.

@dlancer2k 4 года назад

The "blue sky on Mars" ego trip is coincidental, but not as much when you realize he had a previous interest in Mars and most likely hand-picked the "blue sky on Mars" program. There's also the possibility that rumors of alien technology from the pyramid mines managed to make their way to Rekall employees who were tasked with writing a Mars program. So... In order for it to be reality, we have some unsettling coincidences. However, in order for it to be a dream, we have things beyond coincidence. It would be pointless for the Mars ego trip to contain a sequence where he wakes up as Hauser at Rekall only to have that part erased from his memory so Quaid never gets to experience it. If it is a dream, Quaid has no idea it happened, and Hauser and the lab techs are artificial. The audience would be experiencing something that nobody else experienced. It's just a little bit too far fetched for me to believe it was a dream.

@jamesmagwenzi6058 6 лет назад

Total is actually reality but the dream part of the movie is what helped us understand his past and it definitely defined what Quaid will do in the present.

@killamatrix1 4 года назад

Exactly. Why he didnt wake up when hurt multiple times

@VHS_NEON Год назад

@@killamatrix1 To be fair, when playing a vr game your character gets hit quite a lot and you can survive a certain amount of health drain. Assuming Rekall is similar, this might be the answer.

@BellowDGaming 6 лет назад

If they made an alternate ending were Arnold wakes up in the chair had a great time with his adventure as an agent

@CenturianEagle 6 лет назад

It wasn’t a dream imo though it can be interpreted as either or

@kailee87 4 года назад

Classic Masterpiece

@NickJay 4 года назад

I tend to take things very much at face value and often miss underlying themes in films so I just suspected all the stuff back on Mars happened the way it seemed ... but now I'm not so sure. :)

@williammatthews693 3 года назад

I like Verhoeven's explanation best. It's both reality and fantasy, both truth and fiction. Like he said, it's very post-modern.

@HeavenlyH3R0 6 лет назад

just finished this for the first time. Saw it as he was dreaming the whole time.

@jonathanfeldheim6554 2 года назад

I reject the "inception" answer for 2 reasons: 1) the movie fades to white, not black, at the end, so: dream. and 2) the Dr. at the hotel tells Arno "the walls of reality will come crashing in around you" and as soon as he is shot the bad guys come crashing through the walls all around Quaid....eh: ? eh?

@michaelseay9783 Год назад

I disagree that the Rekall employee is literally explaining the rest of the movie at 2:50 because his short description is just way too vague. Not elaborate enough to justify that the movie is not real.

@randalrichardson4019 6 лет назад

Recalling events mean points if real reference. Total means it all comes back...

@merrimac290 2 года назад

Under the dream hypothesis I do have a theory over why he saw her in his dream in the opening scene: Maybe "Melina" was a very minor TV star who did a couple of TV commercials that Quaid saw. Then she starts showing up in his dreams and he conciously forgets where he originally saw her. And then, because she needs the cash, this minor TV star sells her likeness to Total Recall. And so it's just a bizarre coincidence that the girl of his dream is also the girl Total Recall gives him. So there are 3 theories: 1. It's all real. 2. It's all a dream. 3. It's both real and a dream at the same time. Of the three theories, I think 1 is the least likely. I think 2, while not perfect, is way more plausible than 1. But I suppose 3 is the most probable. It's such a great movie. It may actually be my favorite Schwartzenegger movie and I'm a big Terminator and Predator fan as well.

@4345ghee 6 лет назад

Dumb question, if from Rekall onwards it’s all a dream, how did quaid have the dream about Melina and mars at the beginning before ever going to Rekall, and how did they know exactly what she looked like when they were setting his preferences?

@buuzzsawtouchedme194 6 лет назад

+ghee4345, But what about that Women that Arnold creates at Recall (on the screen), she looks a hell of a lot like Melina? Personally I think the makers of the film contradicted themselves.

@folksurvival 6 лет назад

Buuzzsaw Touched Me He literally already said that in his comment.

@buuzzsawtouchedme194 6 лет назад

+unlockthepower, Now I know your a Troll. You know, if your going to Troll someone, it does help to read their comments, instead of being quick to judge. Read it again, an this time I ain't even going to point out why your wrong.

@buuzzsawtouchedme194 5 лет назад

+unlockthepower, Can't even explain why I'm wrong (typical Troll). Now give my free Grammar Check and Fuck Off.

@victorfergn 5 лет назад

There's a scene in the Recall publicity where there are two people climbing a mountain in Mars wearing the same suits, besides in the dream he dies so... it's not a memory and we can't trust what it's shown in it. Another thing is that in the dream he dies in the same way Cohagen does at the end of the movie.

@williamsandell3260 4 года назад

I worked on the film and I still have questions

@alexreindeer3350 7 лет назад

In my opinion, It is all dream. That's why the name of the film is "TOTAL Recall" That's mean TOTAL of the story is in Recall.

@iREZARECTEM 6 лет назад

+Alex Reindeer, not sure what you mean. Total Recall is defined as the ability to remember with clarity every detail of the events of one's life or of a particular event, object, or experience. IMO this suggests that his brain wash was disturbed by undergoing the Secret Agent holiday since the RECALL treatment seemed to have triggered his memory. On the other hand, the way the movie ended suggests he was about to wake up from the dream. ALSO: At the beginning of the movie, one of the white coats says "Blue Skies on Mars?" which is also shown as having come to pass at the end of the film.

@cdubb2447 6 лет назад

iREZARECT'EM But then why is he having dreams of walking the mountains of mars with Melina before he even knows Rekall exists?

@jamesmagwenzi6058 6 лет назад

That's a valid question.

@Stormprobe 6 лет назад

Because you're using too much logic. This is a fictitious film made for entertainment. It's all fiction.

@Vagolyk 5 лет назад

Because Egotrips are new as the salesperson explained. Beforehand only vacations were possible at Rekall.

@kaeledmond3610 4 года назад

I've got to say that the movie was written fairly well as far it's consistency of it possibly being a reality as well as a dream, but it's kind of sad to say that if we look at the logistics of its ending objectively it becomes pretty obvious that it's a dream simply because terraforming an entire planet isn't going to happen in just a matter of minutes like that and everyone would have died anyway. Audiences don't like sad endings we like happy wishful endings hence the sense of escape that fictional mediums seem to give us, therefore at the end of the movie we got the dream that mirrored a slight possibility of reality because we know on a subconscious level that truth is often stranger than fiction. However the experiences Douglas Qaad had were fiction. A dream to the audience but the new alternate reality to the character. As Arnie said, "It's the best mind fuck yet."

@ThePsychoBone 4 года назад

What if Total Recall the movie doesn't even exist? What if NONE of you have ever seen it and you just had the memory of it implanted into your head? THINK ABOUT THAT! The old DVD you have on your shelf is just a souvenir that Rekall gave you.

@masercot 6 лет назад

Other issue with Total Recall: morepotatoes.com/2018/02/14/lessons-learned-from-total-recall

@eaubert1 3 года назад

To me the "reality hypothesis" doesn't ad up. Why would Dr. Edgemar travel to Mars, just to convince him to swallow the red pill? Why would Richter and his goons try to kill him if Quaid/Hauser really works for Cohaagen? How could Cohaagen predict that he would befriend the taxi driver on Mars and lead them to Kuato? Why does Lori only try to kill him once he's been to Rekall even though she can't possibly know he was there? Why does Harry try to kill him even though he also couldn't have known that he had been to Rekall? The movie only ads up if you assume that the events are taking place within Quaid's "ego trip".

@Holret 6 лет назад

I thought it was a dream because as you pointed out, the characters explain the whole movie in one line before he goes in. Also because of that ending, where the sun appears to cast a bright light as if he is finally going to wake up. But some parts do make it confusing, perhaps poor writing, or it was intended for the viewer to have doubts. I Suppose if you go in knowing that it was all a dream maybe you wouldnt care as much. my 2 cents.

@borgpunk 6 лет назад

If it was a dream the bright light is a symbol of him being lobotomized (Explained in the directors comments) Since it was all ment to either end there, or be continued with a sequel, then its not because of poor writing, but simply because both realities was kept alive. all arguments for it being a dram, can also be used as an argument for it being real.

@Eden_Rubin_Music 6 лет назад

I think it's real because you can see how when they got in the apartment and tried to convince him that this is a dream it was obvious that they tried to manipulate him and that it was a coincidence. He dreamt about the girl he loved before and his wife tried to see who does he dream of.

@darkslaerdark 5 лет назад

It is dream man

@Vagolyk 5 лет назад

If its his dream, his judgement can totlly infulence it. I think that he decided on instinct upon noticing the dic is sweating rather than listen to reason is telling that he is cought up in his delusion and can't think clearly. As soon as he got a little peace at the end, he started to notice the absurdjty of what just happened.

@lynxipoofrancis4395 5 лет назад

At the end of the movie Melina: I cant belive its like a dream, whats rong?? Quad : I just have a terrible thought what if is just a dream? Melna: well shut up and kiss me before you wake up May be the bright white light is Doug waking up ⏰ my thoughts is its been a dream from start to fin

@IndyCrewInNYC 6 лет назад

Always thought it was a dream and the white flash at the end either meant he was waking up or was being lobotomized.

@buuzzsawtouchedme194 6 лет назад

+Evan T, White Flesh? What the fuck are you talking about?

@IndyCrewInNYC 6 лет назад

Buuzzsaw Touched Me Can you READ?? I said white "flash." In the upper right-hand corner.

@buuzzsawtouchedme194 6 лет назад

+Evan T, I can read, but can you understand Grammar mistakes. I'm still confused as to what you mean. P.S. Keep it civil, or I wont reply. P.P.S. As for me saying "fuck", I like to swear, it's only un-civil if I tell you to fuck off.

@folksurvival 6 лет назад

Buuzzsaw Touched Me He didn't make a grammar or spelling mistake and his comment made perfect sense. It's ok to just admit you fucked up and misread his comment and made a fool of yourself. You don't need to try to pretend and play it off.

@buuzzsawtouchedme194 6 лет назад

+unlockthepower, Fuck off, I'm not one that made the Grammar mistake, not him. But go on unlockthepower, admit you fucked up and misread my comment and how you have made a fool of yourself, you don't need to try to pretend and play it off.

@danielwillliams9669 3 года назад

I have always felt that this was implanted. Simply because the sales man stated you will not know the difference.

@lordoftheflings 4 года назад

Think about it. The guy at total recall said "Your brain won't be able to tell the difference!" If he just woke up in the Total Recall chair after the adventure, he would know that it wasn't real. He would be like, oh right, it was just a dream I'm here at total recall. For to seem real it had to seem like Total Recall DIDNT implant him. Like whats happening is real. If he had memory of him going under, and then waking up in the total recall chair after his dream, that would be quiet disappointing indeed. That would be just be like a regular dream we have when we're sleeping. Because we then wake up in our beds, we know the dream was just a dream.

@mattb9664 4 года назад

Good... I’ve been correct about Total Recall’s story since I was 10. They wouldn’t be allowed to make an violent action movie that your need to pay attention to and think about these days. Not enough anticipated ROI.

@justinwilliam4644 3 года назад

I can only watch this movie if it's not a dream.

@grahamparr4710 5 лет назад

A bit like Siding Doors?

@RoqueFortStu 5 лет назад

This movie has a complicated plot, I saw it many times over because of confusing bits, with the impression that it was NOT a dream from where Quaid goes to Rekall; nevertheless I wondered, what if Quaid HAD taken the red pill, like a precursor to the Matrix? For many years a sequel was in the pipeline, but if they had made one they might have had to confirm whether the events after Rekall are real or a dream, and as this vid explains, the creators deliberately left it open to interpretation

@iNeverHadMercy 6 лет назад

Now I'm even MORE confused !

@toracedunlap8020 3 года назад

COOL G RAPP, Bob did tell him

@ZarkAttack 6 лет назад

If it could be a dream, why are there so many parts where Doug is absent? This simple detail kinda ruins what the director was going for imo

@borgpunk 6 лет назад

In a dream everything is possible. Its even possible to dream this things, and then dream that you didnt dream it the next moment. Also, there is plenty of examples of this in other films, in the Wizard of Os, there is also scenes without Dorothy Gale.

@Anfimus Год назад

Why does he have to be on screen every moment for it to still be a dream?

@ZarkAttack Год назад

@@Anfimus because that's the nature of the dream experiences that Recall create; they implant memories that are so real that the customer will view them as real events. This would not include having a cut away moment where Doug, who isn't there, somehow sees the bad guys scheming in Cohagen's office....for these events to be believable memories for the customer, they would need to be present in said events. Likewise, if you want the viewer to question whether you are seeing real events or one of these implanted experiences, it should be told consistently from one perspective. So these aren't just dreams, they are implanted memories. Anything can happen in a dream, but Recall is a company that creates controlled, believable experiences that would be shattered by these scenes.

@danielwilliamson6180 6 лет назад

Freeze frame at 3:45.

@buuzzsawtouchedme194 6 лет назад

+Daniel Williamson, My thoughts exactly, but what about his dream though, didn't she also appear in his dream? Personally I think the makers of the film contradicted themselves. P.S. Then again, it's not like it's a mistake, it's like this was done intentionally, as surely someone would have questioned this during the filming.

@danielwilliamson6180 6 лет назад

If it's not a dream. How is Melina's likeness able to appear on the monitor when Quaid makes his preferences of the woman he meet on Mars?

@buuzzsawtouchedme194 6 лет назад

+Daniel Williamson, But the fact both of them exist is what confuses me.

@clericalerror4040 5 лет назад

That scene also has REM onscreen. As in "Rapid eye movement".

@visualonestudio 6 лет назад

It really happened! Otherwise they would have impacted the ego trip first.

@victorfergn 5 лет назад

That was the first part of the dream, besides.. why would he wake up right after being sedated.

@jobrakai9395 4 года назад

It couldn’t have been a dream. Why else would he have a dream about Melina right at the beginning of the movie?

@JoelCraike 3 года назад

Exactly! It wasn't a dream at all

@danielwilliamson6180 6 лет назад

Total Recall is the kind of movie that would had multiple different endings.

@jackxiao9702 5 лет назад

It's not a dream, there are scenes where quaid is out cold when the tech tells her boss that she hasn't implanted the memory yet.

@neoepicurean3772 5 лет назад

I can't believe loads of science nerds haven't nailed you in the comments. This isn't anything like Schrodinger's cat! If Paul Verhoeven had made 2 final edits, one where it's a dream and one where it was real, and saved the 1 copy of them on 2 identical reels and put them in a box which caught on fire, and when he opens them one is still playable; if you asked Paul at this point what the end of the movie was, then he wouldn't know until he played the tape to see. So he'd have to say the movie is and isn't a dream at that point. That is more like Schrodinger's cat.

@martinzuniga6605 3 года назад

I just watched this movie on Netflix. First time watching it, I havent been this mind fucked since American psycho. Total recall is a great movie.

@mikeyguiban9298 5 лет назад

The audience can choose which truth is real.. either way, it's different truths.. mind frying movie tho.. awesome movie too..

@nothingtoitbuttodoit 5 лет назад

Its a dream. He's molding the woman at recall based off the woman in his dreams. The light at the end is him getting lobotomized back at recall like the other guy did

@jondillinger899 4 года назад

it's left open to interpretation

@bmd91163 5 лет назад

The only thing I don't get is why didn't the aliens ever turn the machine on. Just can't think of any explanation for that.

@rascallyrabbit717 5 лет назад

the Nuiwe (alien traders) left it for us to activate. If we screwed up then our sun would nova.

@Thomas1984. 5 лет назад

What I don't get is that he gets 'lobotomized' at the ending. There is no proof of that

@Vagolyk 5 лет назад

The only mention to what can happen to him if he does not accepts the pill is from the doc he shoots in the head. He is either comatose or crazy if his predictions are correct.

@Clarensee 6 лет назад

How's Arnold so handsome in this film!?

@FAITHandLOGIC 3 года назад

It wasn’t a dream.

@Vagolyk 5 лет назад

The ending of this movie didn't felt amiguous to me. There was more evidence that the protagonist is in a dream and things just kept happening that distracted him from realizing it. when he got a breather at the end he even got to the conclusion that this jurney was kind of fantastical, conquerinv his delusion with logic and possibly waking up from it or collapsing his mind as the doc said he would. The only thing that didn't fit was his dreams of mars and the girl he didn't suppose to meet yet. But I think there is a hint to an explanation to that as well. Our hero reacts badly to memory manipulation. The ego trip is a new invention, so far clients could only go to a vacation in their mind as themselves to these exotic places. The heroine is one of the prebuilt companions. When the memory implantation goes haywire the staff deletes the memory of the client's stay and send him home. So Quade was at one of the shops of Rekall before; his Mars trip turned into a nightmare; they partially erased his memory so he kept dreaming about it. Quade has an unfulfilling job and a failing marriage topped of with a sensitive brain.

@Vagolyk 5 лет назад

The evidence against the Hauser story is how unlikeley the plot is and that his dream of dying on Mars couldn't be reality. Plus why would Cohagen bother this much to get baxk his friend when he is a heartless monster?

@jamiekargus794 Год назад

It was a dream nothing to explain here.

@James-mh1vp 5 лет назад

Its 50-50 to get you to think.

@kylevadic7608 5 лет назад

Everyone wonders how he dreams of the woman before recall? Well you do understand that Melina is also the news anchor in reality right. Also i believe that whole part where he freak at recall, is also indeed part of the dream, the directors wanted this movie to be open for debate since its conception. So tell me how would you have the dream start? With him waking up in a bed? Also for those who mention the scens without quad. Imagine how terrible this movie would be with out the substance people....yes i get it this movie is suppose to analysed and no detail can be over looked. But come on thats substance you need that either way for the audiences own motivation in the story! Lastly the blue sky on mars, the technician litterally spoils the last shot of movie with that line. Also the sales man at the begining lays the whole dream out from begining to end. Im not sure how much more proof you guys need.