[thijson]

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.

[MattPalmer1086]

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...

[WCSTombs]

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.

[Hard_Space]

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

[ljf]

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.