Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
or something that's difficult to grasp/take in after seeing just once - primer.
this movie is impossible.
the 1st time i watched it i my pants and i havent touched it again.
a friend of mine also has a shirt that says
"I UNDERSTAND PRIMER"
mr.bison
In Alexander. Why did Colin Farrell react in this peculiar manner? Very odd acting.
Whats with his reaction?
Desiderata
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Originally posted by mr.bison
In Alexander. Why did Colin Farrell react in this peculiar manner? Very odd acting.
Whats with his reaction?
Looking at your name, do you play Super Street Fighter 4?
mr.bison
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Originally posted by Desiderata
Looking at your name, do you play Super Street Fighter 4?
I do, but i am actually more of a Tekken player.
PhilBxR
The IMDb forums are good for hearing other peoples interpretations on films you may not grasp.
I gave up on David Lynch's 'Inland Empire'. It is beyond comprehension.
Scoops
took me awhile to find out what the was going in Total Recall
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by Scoops
took me away to find out what the was going in Total Recall
There are at least four possibilities, and there's no way of knowing which is the right one. The film deliberately uses narrative deconstruction to convey the hyperreality of technological encroachment on the human mind. It's actually a very smart film, a lot smarter than many ponderously serious sci-fi films like Bladerunner.
PhilBxR
Total Recall is Arnie's finest moment! An Arnie film that actually gets you thinking. I reckon it was all a dream and he was acting out his fantasy at RECALL RECALL RECALL :D
Desiderata
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
There are at least four possibilities, and there's no way of knowing which is the right one. The film deliberately uses narrative deconstruction to convey the hyperreality of technological encroachment on the human mind. It's actually a very smart film, a lot smarter than many ponderously serious sci-fi films like Bladerunner.
I agree. IMHO it still holds it's weight with sci-fi of todays orgin.
aNYthing
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Originally posted by Desiderata
Cameron Diaz originally said "open your eyes" on his alarm before his face ever got jacked, later in the movie as he went into the dream and it turned into a nightmare, the girls became mixed up and that is why sometimes it sounded like Sofia.
At the end, before he went into the dream, he signed a paper that if anything was to ever go wrong and he needed to wake up from his dream, he would face his deepest fear and that was heights, so after he said goodbye to everyone from his real life/dream he jumped off the building but not to die but to wake up in the future whatever date it was, I forget how long he was in that dream but it is in the movie.
After his face got jacked from the car accident, he fought the 7 dwarfs as they were going to have him claimed mentally incapable of doing his job but he fought for his 51% of the company and won. Then he saw a commercial about Benny the Dog who was frozen for a length of time and got the idea to kill himself. See, he was a rich spoiled brat but quickly fell in love with the poor girl (typical story line there). She was no longer attracted to him so he found that place that would freeze people but not just preserve them for he future, they would allow them to continue their life as they wished. He was so fixated on Sofia (the poor girl). Opposites attract you know. Anyway, when we went under to be froze his brain still worked as planned and in his dream his face was fixed by a radical experimental preceder. Sofia came back in his life and as far as he knew he was really alive. The Iconography was interesting because as he kept living in the dream word his mind would take things from his real life past and turn them into reality. But what happened was kind of like what happened on Total Recall, he had a nightmare with in the dream. I think the memory of the car crash was deep rooted in his mind and that is what caused his to mistake Sofia for Cameron Diaz. The whole movie was about the choices you make in life and sometimes the littlest of choices can have the most dramatic affect on a persons life, for example he should have never got in the car with Cameron Diaz, especially after spending such a rad night with Sofia. They had love at first sight (it does exist). But being the player he was trying to sway away from his life after meeting Sofia, he still got into that car and suffered dearly.
So I think the deep mental drama he felt from the car accident caused his dreams to switch around where the girls in his mind would change back and forth. It was also about friendship, the old man that knew his Dad helped him regain his 51% percent of the company. But it was also about betrayal as his best friend told Cameron Diaz that he (Tom Cruz)said they wee just buddies which led to the car accident if you really look at it but Tom Cruz betrayed his friend at the party by taking away Sofia with his charm and lure of money (I saw that play a part in why she liked him in the movie) but anyway his friend has just met her and was a hopeless romantic and if Tom Cruz never interfered who know what could have happened with Sofia and his friend, but he stole her away anyhow. A little bit of Karma in there.
Well, the dream turned to and that is when Technical support came in because things were to out of control. And in Tom Cruz's contract with that company he signed a paper that if the dream went crazy that he would face his biggest fear and that was heights. That is why they went up to the top floor and he said goodbye to everyone then jumped off the building in order to wake up. There was also that little thing about in the future his money running out, it almost made me thing that they ed his dream in order to get him back into the real world cause his cash was finally running out but that idea doesn't fit with the movie well.
I know I ramble when I write but if there is anything you don't understand about the movie just respond, I know that movie very well.
What is happiness to you David?
thanks for that... though, I am still not clear. What happened in "real world" - did Sophia die?
Halcyon+On+On
The man in the elevator with him explains the entire movie. Like, he just says exactly what happens. There's no trick or secret to it at all. Watch that scene.
Desiderata
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Originally posted by aNYthing
thanks for that... though, I am still not clear. What happened in "real world" - did Sophia die?
Sofia died in the real world because he was in that dream world for something like a 100 years so Sofia died of old age in the real world, not because he put a pillow over her face.
Read what Hal wrote right above this then go watch the movie again but pay most of your attention to what the Tech Support guy says going up the elevator and while on top of the roof and you will understand a lot more about the movie.
