Analysis of the plot (thinking hard for a day)

Jade 2021-10-20 17:35:31

I watched the movie when I was very young, and now I don’t remember anything. I just think that Arnold is saving Mars and creating a second earth, which is very mighty. I recently watched the remake of "Total Memories" and found out that the original "Devil's Story" is this classic. Looking at the new version of Yunliwuli, and now reading the old version, I can basically figure out the ins and outs of the story.

The story is about: Arnold has been dreaming about a trip to Mars, so he decided to go to a recall company to implant the memory of the trip to Mars, but the memory company found that he had erased memories in his mind. Now that implantation would cause chaos, he The memory of his visit to the company is also cleared. But as soon as Arnold returned home, he was hunted down by his colleagues, including his wife. With the help of a mysterious man (a former colleague of agents), he found clues and decided to go to Mars to find the truth. After arriving inside the Mars Resistance Organization, I was found by the opponent Mars Dictator of the Resistance Organization. He killed the leader of the Resistance Organization and told Arnold that he was the right-hand man of the big BOSS. He had done a great job in finding the nest of the Resistance Organization. Now Need to restore the memory of the original agent. But Arnold saw the brutality of the bad guys and determined to become a member of a resistance organization, no longer wanting the so-called memories of agents, and saving the people of Mars from the fire and water. So there was a cosmic explosion, which killed the heads of the dictatorship, activated the atmospheric environment modification button left by the aliens, and turned Mars into a second earth. So far it ends perfectly.

However, there is a question: if Arnold is the right-hand man of the leader of the Martian ruling group, why are the resistance groups so familiar with him?

For this question, I thought about it for a long time, and felt that the whole plot should be like this:

Arnold first appeared as a member of the resistance organization, and is also a relatively important figure. He was captured in a battle with the Mars ruling group (the new version has this captured plot at the beginning), and the dictator is also I feel distressed for the delay in finding the nest and head of the Resistance. After capturing Arnold, he thought of using him to break into the enemy, so he brainwashed Arnold, making him think that he is the right-hand man of the big BOSS, and his task is to penetrate into the resistance organization by implanting memory, and Be prepared to clear all his previous memories, do a good job of restoring the memory (because of leaving the memory of the trip to Mars, Arnold will go to the memory company to restore the memory sooner or later), and give him a memory of a construction worker on earth , And later hunted him down to force him to be directed to Mars. Finally break into the interior and find the leader. After completing the mission, he wanted to give Arnold the memories implanted after his initial capture. But Arnold's cosmic explosion (it really was a cosmic dragon), a perfect counterattack. In the end, he became the original self. The perfect argument is of

course one that I don’t want to endorse. All this is just the memory that Arnold is implanting in the recall company. This argument is boring. In the dream, it should be directly defeating the autocratic rule and saving Mars. , If you have a beautiful home, don’t engage in memory implantation and other topics. It is very confusing.

I still believe in the first explanation, which is more convincing.

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Total Recall quotes

  • Richter: [into the video phone] Richter here. We've got them pinned down.

    Vilos Cohaagen: Stop fighting and pull out.

    Richter: But they've got Quaid! They're protecting him!

    Vilos Cohaagen: Perfect! Get out of Sector G, now.

    Richter: But...

    Vilos Cohaagen: Don't think. Do it!

    Richter: [as he hangs up; angry and frustrated] Yes, sir!

  • Douglas Quaid: Come on, Cohaagen! You got what you want. Give those people air!

    Vilos Cohaagen: In five minutes, you won't give a SHIT about any of those people!