There is this debate on "Was it real or a Dream" I know, it's dumb, and there are statements out there from the director that it was intentional that you can think either and be correct.
I was watching it again the other day and during the implant scene where the techs show Quaid the images on the monitor, we see the reactor and Melina. Which tells us they are about to implant those memories into Quaid and therefore everything moving forward is a dream. Then, in the next scene the Tech tells the boss that they had not even implanted the ego trip program yet so his reaction was a result of being previously memory capped. This makes the view conclude it's all real from that point on. That is the intentional misleading evidence to fuel the "Was it real" debate.
What if it is much simpler. Obviously, the business model of Recall is to copy the memories of a real person who did these amazing things, then sell those memories to customers. So where did they get the "Blue sky on Mars" ego trip memories? Obviously, they got it from Hauser. Being that things "Rarely F' Up" in the implantation procedure, it would take a rare event, such as attempting to implant a memory in a person who originally supplied those memories. So maybe, the reason Quaid had such a reaction, was because the "Blue sky on Mars" Ego trip was actually his own memories leading up to the point where he had is memory capped, and the story we see on screen is real from that point forward.
Just my theory, but thought I'd share.
I was watching it again the other day and during the implant scene where the techs show Quaid the images on the monitor, we see the reactor and Melina. Which tells us they are about to implant those memories into Quaid and therefore everything moving forward is a dream. Then, in the next scene the Tech tells the boss that they had not even implanted the ego trip program yet so his reaction was a result of being previously memory capped. This makes the view conclude it's all real from that point on. That is the intentional misleading evidence to fuel the "Was it real" debate.
What if it is much simpler. Obviously, the business model of Recall is to copy the memories of a real person who did these amazing things, then sell those memories to customers. So where did they get the "Blue sky on Mars" ego trip memories? Obviously, they got it from Hauser. Being that things "Rarely F' Up" in the implantation procedure, it would take a rare event, such as attempting to implant a memory in a person who originally supplied those memories. So maybe, the reason Quaid had such a reaction, was because the "Blue sky on Mars" Ego trip was actually his own memories leading up to the point where he had is memory capped, and the story we see on screen is real from that point forward.
Just my theory, but thought I'd share.