Thoughts are an army, we recruit to our minds

Tyrese 2022-04-20 09:01:29

After reading the last person's film review, I also believe that this movie is a remake. Most people don't know it like I do, so I made a special trip to find the Arnold version after watching this. The open ending of Uncle Empire’s philosophy science fiction movie makes us wander between reality and fantasy. Zhuang Zhou Mengdie or Die Meng Zhuang Zhou


is a mediocre worker who lives in Australia, a symbol of slums. Great Britain jobs representing big cities. Although the distance between these two places is only ten minutes, the lives nurtured in these two places are worlds apart. This seemingly sci-fi scene is actually happening around us every day: I have to go to work in the Second Ring Road but live in Changping, squeeze the subway for 40 minutes every day... The life the protagonist lives is an enlarged version of this real life.

He's very busy at work, but has no progress in his career - after all, he doesn't have a "Britannia" account. All kinds of privileged and related households are ahead of him. The life that he can see every day in the big city seems to be at hand, but it has nothing to do with him at all: after get off work, he sits on the falling road, and everything is far away from him.

The huge contrast between reality and ideal makes the protagonist want to find a breakthrough to vent. By chance, he discovers Huiyi Company: a company that can directly make you change your memory. "I've never experienced it, at least imagine it once." The protagonist thought about this, so he sat on the memory drawing table like this.

The protagonist has always had an underlying fantasy: he is a super agent, and sometimes he even has dreams about it at night. So he hoped that Huiyi Company would give him a fantasy of an agent. The technology of Huiyi Company is very good, and the protagonist "seamlessly" enters the virtual memory designed for him. However, this technique is so "good" that the protagonist, who has been suppressed for a long time, is completely immersed in it, and because he himself has many delusions about himself as an agent, he is completely immersed in the imagery company's service. Among the false memories he created.

In reality, people are still trying to pull it back, and even let the information of his good friend enter the protagonist's dream to persuade him to return to reality. However, this memory is too real and too perfect. Compared to the same day, I go to work at 8 in the morning and get off at 6 in the evening. I often get off work overtime and see the bustling city every day. The reality of getting away from him is much better.

Wouldn't that look much better?

Life in the big city is his dream, but in reality, his dream starts and shatters every day with the start of the fall.

For more than ten years, it has never changed...

For more than ten years, dreams have been shattered every day...

So this time, he is not going to wake up...

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Extended Reading
  • Andres 2022-03-21 09:01:35

    The amazing setting of the future world scene, the two beautiful girls who are eye-catching, the technological slots that are available everywhere, limited to the old version of the framework, the development is not enough, the concept of THE FALL is very clever, the contrast between the colonial and federal settings is not clear enough

  • Jana 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    As a commercial film, I really think it's not bad. A lot of things are eye-catching.

Total Recall quotes

  • Doug Quaid: Tell me what is going on? Talk! Or we can skip to "Until death do us apart."

    Lori Quaid: I'm not your wife.

    Doug Quaid: That's bullshit. We've been married for seven years.

    Lori Quaid: I'm U.F.B. police intel, assigned to play your wife. Six weeks ago. I didn't even know you.

    Doug Quaid: What are you talking about?

    Lori Quaid: It's true. Your memory was erased, your mind was implanted with a life you think you've lived. You keeping up, baby? There is no Douglas Quaid, there never was.

    Doug Quaid: Are you saying I don't... This... Every... Our marriage...

    Lori Quaid: What can I say? I give good wife.

  • [first lines]

    Melina: Wake up. Wake up. Wake up.