QAre the events in the film real or a dream?
AWhile the 1990 film left it more ambiguous as to whether it was a dream or not (with more hints that it was indeed a dream). This film appears to play as if the events are indeed really happening. The biggest hint that it *may* have been a dream comes at the very end of the film when Doug checks a bandage on his right forearm and notices that the tattoo of a peace symbol that he received at Rekall was missing, suggesting he may still be in the dream world where he wouldn't have the symbol. He starts looking concerned but then dismisses it.
QWhat is Total Recall about?
AFactory worker Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell) goes to visit "Rekall", a company that provides its clients with memory implants of the perfect life they could have lived. Because of a recurring nightmare he's been having in which he is a secret agent who is hunted and captured by United Federation of Britain (UFB) officers, along with an unknown woman, Quaid decides to have a memory implant of a life where he is a secret agent. However, the procedure goes wrong and Quaid is soon hunted by UFB officers. He learns his wife Lori (Kate Beckinsale) is a UFB agent, who claims that his whole life is a lie and that he is not who he thinks is. After discovering that he is a reprogrammed renegade UFB agent called Carl Hauser, who used to work for UFB Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston). Quaid goes on the run and is joined by a woman named Melina (Jessica Biel). Quaid agrees to help a resistance group led by Matthias (Bill Nighy), in bringing down Cohaagen who plots to invade The Colony (Australia) with his military forces and destroy the gravity transport "The Fall", which will kill innocent people and revive his memories as Hauser. But, as Quaid sets out to defeat Cohaagen, he begins to question reality and wonder whether everything happening around him is real or in his mind, a fantasy created as part of his memory implant.
QWhat are the differences between the Theatrical Version and the Extended Director's Cut?
AThe Extended Director's Cut, which was released on Blu-ray, deserves the Director's Cut branding since it features several new and extended plot sequences that improve the movie immensely. Throughout the movie nearly 100 differences can be found between both versions, ranging from prolonged story scenes to added nudity and action sequences and altered dialogues. A very detailed comparison between both versions with pictures can be found here.
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