Movie Controversies [MCS] Total Recall: real or a fantasy?

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[As you can see I added a few more choices than a simple yes/no. This is intended as an ongoing series [“MCS”] of poll threads in CS-anyone can add one, but please wait for the older threads to die down. I have dibs on Blade Runner tho.]

If you recall a key scene had one of the (ostensible) bigwigs from Total Recall suddenly show up and try to convince Quaid that he was actually still hooked up to their servers running his chosen fantasy scenario, and on the verge of a psychotic breakdown to boot. Right when Quaid seemed almost convinced, he notices a drop of sweat on the bigwig’s forehead, and assumes that said bigwig has a touch of fear, and shoots him, igniting a firefight with some mooks (and his own wife of course, played by Sharon Stone). I can’t think of a reason why the sweat would show up if the bigwig is supposedly in charge of all aspects of the simulation-then again perhaps Quaid subconsciously put it in there himself, to remain ensconsced within the VR world he favored.

I have to point out that the plot that played out did indeed match what Quaid originally chose, down to the physical traits of the heroine that he hooks up with. I’ll go with Leaning Against the theory that it is “all a dream”, but remain open to being convinced otherwise.

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I go with real, because of the aforementioned drop of sweat. They also show him going nuts at the Rekall office while they’re trying to implant the memories. He didn’t seem to remember that incident, which I assume he would if it were part of a “vacation package.”

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They erased his memory again. Or damaged it when they blew his cover.

I’m going with “it was probably all in his head”, the sales pitch for the ‘secret agent’ vacation was a perfect description of the whole thing, the woman he picked out on the computer is suspiciously similar to the heroine, having his wife turn against him was just a little too pat, etc.