Total Recall
Movie • 1990 • Action
ReportConstruction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who planted the chip.
This movie contains 29 potentially triggering events.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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MalvolioSF
The wife viciously attacks the husband, slashing him with a knife, kicking him in the stomach and groin, and eventually siccing a team of mooks on him.
When he finally has her at gun-point, she wheedles, “But honey, we’re married.”
He blows her brains out and tells the corpse, “Consider this a divorce.”
When he finally has her at gun-point, she wheedles, “But honey, we’re married.”
He blows her brains out and tells the corpse, “Consider this a divorce.”
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Is someone gaslighted?
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MalvolioSF
Yes — although it may be the audience. Either an evil corporation is making a construction worker believe that he is really an interplanetary spy — or an evil government agency is making an interplanetary spy believe that he is really a construction worker. Different viewers will come to different conclusions about which is supposed to be true.
At one point, the baffled hero exclaims, “If I am not me, then who the hell am I?”
At one point, the baffled hero exclaims, “If I am not me, then who the hell am I?”
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BrittanyH
In addition to the rat who is shot, an aquarium with goldfish in it is kicked over and the goldfish do not survive
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Nuisance
Technically - maybe offscreen? Quaid has an ongoing sexual relationship with the woman he falsely believes is his wife, although it's possible he consented to this prior to having his memories rewritten.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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A knife is used as a weapon and cuts the main character twice
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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A group of people has their oxygen supply cut off, they're shown laying on the ground but nobody dies as a result.
Several characters are exposed to the vacuum of space and graphically struggle and make noise.
Several characters are exposed to the vacuum of space and graphically struggle and make noise.
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Is there amputation?
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There is a particularly graphic amputation where the villain’s main henchman loses both arms in an elevator accident.
There are also many birth-defects depicts, involving missing or superfluous extremities.
There are also many birth-defects depicts, involving missing or superfluous extremities.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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we see a character with a bloody mouth
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Does someone break a bone?
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There are sounds of bones breaking in some fight scenes
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Part of a robotic disguise/ facial prosthetic malfunctions, and the wearer can be seen screaming and having facial spasms, similar to a grand mal siezure.
There is a second scene where a character is strapped into a machine and starts having bodily convulsions
Last edit: a third scene near the end where multiple characters convulse in a low oxygen atmosphere.
There is a second scene where a character is strapped into a machine and starts having bodily convulsions
Last edit: a third scene near the end where multiple characters convulse in a low oxygen atmosphere.
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Is someone tortured?
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Not deliberate torture, but the protagonist suffers a violent seizure while strapped to chair
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Richter also falls to an offscreen death from the elevator near the movie climax (although he likely would have died anyways from his injuries).
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Is someone kidnapped?
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MalvolioSF
The protagonist is several times physically seized by groups of bad guys and dragged to another room, but always manages to free himself.
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Does someone cheat?
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MalvolioSF
A weird villainous example: the wife of one of the bad guys is required to pose as the wife of the amnesiac hero. There is much discussion of whether she prefers sex with her pretend-husband (Arnold Schwarzenegger at his physical prime) over her real husband (Michael Ironsides).
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Not exactly, but it could be argued that the protagonist is himself possessing another character.
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A main character spits on a villain when justifiably provoked
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Several injections are forcibly given to a restrained and protesting victim.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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The protagonist is distressed and has nightmares as a result of his amnesia.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The main characters are trapped underground, backed against a wall, with a massive drill approaching them and blocking the only exit
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Is there shakey cam?
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Camera looks at a TV in a moving subway through protagonist perspective.
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Is there hate speech?
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Usage of "freak" to describe mutated people and dwarves.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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dirtprince
there are mutated humans who are called “freaks”
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Does the black guy die first?
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MalvolioSF
No, he dies third-from-last (of the many named characters who die — a bunch of faceless mooks get mown down after him too).
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Sex
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dirtprince
some sexualized nudity but no sex
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MalvolioSF
One of the bloodiest movies to ever receive a major release and the violence is played for laughs, shock value, and gross-out humor.
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Is there gun violence?
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courtlynlouise
Lots of people are killed with guns, and it is very graphic.
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