Is the girlfriend actually imagined by the male protagonist?

Madie 2022-04-21 09:01:39

The two main female characters in the play (that is, the girlfriend who appeared in the male protagonist's dream at the beginning and the male protagonist's wife) are very similar in appearance, and I personally think that the director did it deliberately.

At the end of the story, there is no mark on the male protagonist's arm. It can be seen that the male protagonist has been in the virtual world. The girlfriend in the virtual world may not exist in reality at all. The dream at the beginning may really just be a dream! !

The reasons are as follows. At the beginning of the movie, the male protagonist is dissatisfied with his life. He should love his wife, but he is not satisfied with this, so he will keep having that nightmare: he is being chased and killed in the dream. , indicating that he is very important, not an ordinary worker in reality; and his dream girlfriend is his ideal girlfriend.

But the ideal type of girlfriend must have an image source, and considering that the male protagonist still loves his wife, then this prototype is naturally the male protagonist's wife.

So I think that the similarity of the two women's looks is the director's cleverness, not the product of careless and perfunctory things.

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Total Recall quotes

  • Melina: Hauser, we've been looking for you.

    Doug Quaid: Don't call me... My name is Doug Quaid. I was born August 29th. All right. I was raised by my mother. She died of cancer before my 15th birthday. I married my girlfriend when I was 29!

    Melina: You were born April 29th. You were raised by your father, not your mother. He died before you were 15, but in a car crash. And believe me, you were most definitely not married.

  • Lori Quaid: You might want to give your little girlfriend a kiss goodbye. As long as she doesn't mind where those lips have been.

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