Total Recall

The year is 2084. Douglas Quaid is a construction worker, every night Doug has been having horrible nightmares about the planet Mars and it has become very obsessive for Doug. Doug goes to "Rekall INC" a company that sales false memories of ideal holidays. When Doug has a false memory of a holiday on Mars implanted, it all goes terribly wrong. Doug has lost his memory and he is being chased by a group of assassins and his beautiful wife Lori is a agent who claims his whole life is a fake and he isn't who he is. After discovering he is Hauser, a former Mars Intelligence agent, Quaid goes to the colony on Mars, in hoping of finding answers. Where he meets a woman named Melina who is working for rebels and the assassins are working for Vilos Cohaggen, the colony's corrupt administrator. As Doug sets out to discover who he is and why Cohaagen is after him, Doug not only is finding answers, he also begins to question reality. Is the events of Rekall INC, being chased by assassins and going to Mars really happening? or Is it all a dream?(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/plotsummary)

Total Recall brings into question what makes up an individuals memories and how we are able to preceive them. By looking at this film the audience is able to start to question their own ideas about memory and what makes a memory. The film is allowing the audience to question if it is a dream or if it is a reality. To me the film is a dream. This can be seen in a few different instances. One is when the doctor comes into Quaid's mind and tells him that this is a dream and that he has taken control of the dream himself. By having Quiad in complete control of the dream and then choses to see the bead of sweat drip down the doctor's face. Quiad made this happen. Another instance is when they say he will have total recall but this never happens. This is because Quiad did not pay for all of the memories that Hauser would have. It just comes down to that he did not pay for those memories and that is why he never gained them. Total Recall allow the viewer to come to grips that our reality is only what our mind and memories make of it.