Total Recall (1990)

Total Recall is a American tech noir-film by Director Paul Verhoeven. The film is based on the short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip k. Dick. At the Academy Awards got Total Recall a Special Achievement Award for Visual effects. The film was nominated for Oscars for best effects and for best sound. The film is for the most part on Mars, in the near future. in 2012, a remake of the same name . ==Plot[ Edit] == Douglas Quaid leads an ordinary life on Earth. He is happily married to his wife Lori and has a job as a construction worker. Yet he is dreaming about Mars and he decides to buy a ' fictional journey ' of the company Rekall; a journey that is not real because only the memory of it is implanted in the brain. Quaid gets however a coincidence because the implanted suppressed memory conflicts with his actual memory. Quaid was already on Mars, but remembers this anymore because someone has modified his memory. The employees of Rekall, afraid of legal consequences, erase memory of his visit Quaids and dump him in a taxi home.

On our way home is Quaid by his peers and later by his own wife attacked. To his own surprise he manages to repel them and his own wife to beat. She confesses that she does not really his wife and that his memory has been cleared after which a (fake) reminder about his job and their wedding is implanted. Quaid Gets a case of an unknown that among other things contains false identity papers. There is also a video of himself, in which he tells himself that there is a transmitter in his head, and he explains how it look like to catch him. It also appears that his actual name Hauser, and that he has worked for the Martian Governor Vilos Cohaagen and rebels has fought, but here from conscientious with it stopped. Quaid should go to Mars, because there lies the key to the denouement.

In the covered cities of Mars has Governor Vilos Cohaagen it with his clique for saying. He demands high prices for all goods, to basic needs, and leave all the prosperity only to forward to him and his close associates. Mutants caused by the bad radiation protection in parts of the colony, are discriminated against and are outcasts of the society. Quaid comes on Mars and is led to Venusville, a red light district populated by the lower classes and mutants, who are backed by the rebels. In a bar he comes into contact with Hausen's ex-girlfriend Melina, who initially does not trust him.

In a hotel comes Quaid his wife and a doctor, who try to convince him that this is all not really but a reminder of Rekall is. In reality, according to them, they are a chance, and Quaid also implanted in the reminder to save him. The only way to prevent insanity is taking a pill, which symbolizes his desire to return. Quaid believes the almost but is convinced that the doctor is lying when he see him sweating, and kills the doctor and escapes with Melina. Governor Cohaagen here is so displeased that he let the oxygen supply to Venusville shutdown.

With the help of Benny the taxi driver know Quaid and Melina to reach the rebel headquarters and have a conversation with their telepathic leader Kuato. Kuato Quaids memory reads and discovers that he knows about an alien machine coming from water ice a breath can create atmosphere for the planet. Cohaagen fears this machine because its power base is its monopoly on oxygen. Quaid machinery must activate. Right after this conversation is the basis to Cohaagens men and fall Kuato killed;Benny, actually a double agent, has betrayed them.

Melina and Quaid are imprisoned and Cohaagen reveals the truth to Quaid. It was all a preconceived plan been. Hauser had no conscientious but was a close friend of Cohaagen. To make it all to make more credible he let his memory voluntarily modifying so that it was as if Cohaagen tried to come off him in this way. In reality, he was lured back to Mars and subtle ways it was intended to infiltrate and Cohaagens to lead men to the rebels. Quaids memory will be modified again and as a reward he gets Melina, whose memory is also modified so they are loyal woman is. They know just in time to escape and set sail for the alien machine.

In a final confrontation with Benny and Richter among other Cohaagens men are killed. Cohaagen tries to convince the machine let Quaid because it would destroy the planet. With an explosive blows Quaid a hole in the wall and is sucked by the vacuum and Cohaagen chokes. Quaid knows to turn on the machine just in time for he and Melina also be vacuumed out. As they are about to choke the machine generates an atmosphere so they survive. Also the almost-stitched inhabitants of Venusville can literally breathe a sigh of relief.

Or the adventure is real or yet the product of ' the spectator ', is left to Rekall.