Rami Ungar The Writer

Rekall: So good, you’ll never want to come back. Unless your name is Douglas Quaid, of course.

So last night, I decided to watch the original Total Recall, and let me tell you, I liked it, my only problem with it being that the terraforming scene at the end of the movie was a little too ridiculous for me. However, I’m not here to review Total Recall (whose remake, from what I heard, can’t really compare to the original). I’m here to discuss Rekall, the company at the beginning of the film that gives you false memories of wonderful vacations for a price. I was watching the scene where Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character is getting the spin from the doctor about the wondrous packages he could recieve, the memories that were only a few hundred credits away. It made me think, What sort of memories would I pick up if I went to Rekall?

Okay, most of you who know me probably think they know what I would get if I went to Rekall. And now you’re thinking, Of course we do. And now you’re wondering if I’m psychic or something, to which I reply I’m not. I’m also going to tell you that my dream vacation would not be becoming the leader of a demon army and taking over the world. Nor would it be becoming a slasher serial killer and having my own scary movie. Did any of you guess either of those? If you did, then what sort of deranged person do you think I am?

Anyway, this is what I’d want to do if I went to Rekall to get some memories implanted in me: I’d be just a normal human who one day discovers I have magic powers. I would gain a cool magical weapon and a spirit familiar, and I would soon discover that my magical powers mean I am prophesied to stop an evil army from taking over Earth and a magical realm in a parralel universe to Earth. Reluctantly I would take on the mantle of hero and I would go off to fight the demon army, which is comprised of wicked humans who believe they’re controlling the demons, but in reality it is not that simple.

Along the way, I would meet a really cool girl with fighting skills and magic powers and we’ll become friends and fighting partners. I’l also make some more allies, a few rivals, and some more enemies. I’ll train under various masters of magic and combat, learning all I can, and I’ll even discover some amazing things about my friends and about myself along the way, including that my fighting partner is also a princess from a lost kingdom who disappeared years ago and is unaware of her own parentage.

There will be cool fights, a couple of plot twists, one or two love triangles, and maybe a betrayal, but of course, in the end the bad guys get their asses kicked, I get the girl, and we all live happily ever after as Earth and the magical realm come into contact for the first time and learn to live with each other.

Okay, now I showed you mine. You show me yours. What would you do if you went to Rekall to get memories implanted? Would you go on an adventure? What kind? Or would you rather spend it doing something ordinary, maybe spending a couple of weeks in an exotic country? Touring your favorite vacation spot? Maybe you’ll go back in time to an era you’ve always wanted to visit? Let me know, I’d love to hear it.