Total Recall a Dyostopian Narrative - 2534 Words

C. Keith â€Å"Total Recall the Ultimate Dystopian Narrative† Total Recall is a movie based on Philip K. Dick’s story, â€Å"We Can Remember it for You Wholesale,† Total Recall is a 1990 dystopian movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, directed by Paul Verhoeven. In order to truly discuss dystopia, we must first define utopia and then in turn dystopia. A utopia is a place, or condition that is ideally perfect in all respects. This applies to its laws, customs, practices, and living conditions. A dystopia by contrast is an anti-utopia, a place in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society is maintained through bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. Dystopias, tend to exaggerate worst-case†¦show more content†¦In 2008, only a few of these inventions are affordable to the masses of people. In the movie only the more fortunate individuals had the trapping and trinkets that displayed there status and need for technology. This statement still remains true in late 2008, o nly the wealthy can afford most of these things. Dehumanization, the most common of all the trait of a dystopian narrative, and was brilliantly displayed in many segments of Total Recall. The underworld, were the less fortunate lived, worked and played was plagued by over crowed streets, depression and crime bars and brothel’s. This area was extremely impoverished and, it was a detailed dramatization of life on planet Mars. Imagine that the earth was so messed that its inhabitant has packed up and moved to Mars, knowing fully that they have to pay for every breath of they had to breathe. The under ground inhabitants of Mars had been so long deprived of air and penetrated by radiation that many people had developed deformities. Imagine if there is a treasure in the earth’s core and one man had possession of it. Knowing that it’s healing effect once it was found could right all the wrongs or reverse the damage society has done to the earth. Knowing this on thing would restore the earth’s resources. In recent times in the U.S, and around the world we experienced a similar disaster.