SCIENCE ON SCREEN® - TOTAL RECALL

TOTAL RECALL (1990) takes place in the year 2084. The film follows the bored construction worker Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who dreams of visiting the colonized Mars. He visits "Rekall," a company that plants false memories into people's brains, in order to experience the thrill of Mars without having to travel there. But something goes wrong during the procedure; Quaid discovers that his entire life is actually a false memory and that the people who implanted it in his head now want him dead.

Prior to the film, Professor Eshed Ohn-Bar , from Boston University, will give a presentation