Timeline for How did Quaid know who to shoot when someone pretended to be trying to "wake him up"?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:54 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 21, 2012 at 12:32 | vote | accept | agentofuser | ||
| Nov 21, 2012 at 1:26 | comment | added | Scivitri | In the 1990 version, I would stress that this does NOT resolve the question "was it real, or a dream?" which is fundamental to the movie. Dr. Edgemar's explanation could be 100% accurate; the sweat could be either a measure of Quaid's subconscious control over the dream creating cues that his subconscious wants, or Dr. Edgemar could easily be stressed about being the final hope to save the life of a patient. The sweat resolves the question to Quaid's satisfaction, but not an outside observer. I've not seen the 2012 version, but I expect the same applies. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 18:06 | history | edited | Oliver_C | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2012 at 17:50 | history | edited | Shiz Z. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2012 at 17:48 | comment | added | Shiz Z. | In the original movie, the man's drop of sweat indicated the man was not a computer-generated hallucination but a real human who was scared because he was in real danger. Similarly, in the remake, the woman's tear indicated she was experiencing genuine emotion and therefore was a real person. I'll edit this into the answer now... | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 11:11 | history | answered | Oliver_C | CC BY-SA 3.0 |