![]() ![]() In doing so, Total Recall introduced a style of paranoid sci-fi cinema that lay dormant in the mainstream for almost a decade until The Matrix premiered in 1999. Dick story much better than Blade Runner. Dick adaptations go, Total Recall is superior to Blade Runner in one specific way: It actually captures the mood of a Philip K. ![]() Dick sci-fi story, and it did it by following one essential rule of adapting PKD story into a film: Ditch a lot of the original story but keep the mood.Īs unfaithful Philip K. ![]() It's also the second movie that nailed the essence of a Philip K. If you squint, Total Recall feels like a raunchier spiritual sequel to Blade Runner. Thirty years ago, on June 1, 1990, Total Recall implanted us with memories of a type of science fiction film making that never really became mainstream. ![]()
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