Total Recall
Now there is a movie from the hay day of Arnold Schwarzenegger. But I will delve more into the movie in a moment. First, a little background on today’s topic.
One of my co-workers thought that insane sounded better than being crazy. It was the end of the day and the usual chaos and mayhem had ensued. Being tired and ready to go home, anything is open for discussion. I immediately started making connections to other obscure channels of insanity and viola, the term schizoid embolism popped right into the forefront of my brain. I know, it is an odd connection but after all we were discussing semantics of mental health.
Arnold’s character in Total Recall is what Jethro Bodine calls a double naught spy who has had his mind wiped clean. Sharon Stone stars as his “wife”. He stops by a place called Recall on the way home from work to see if he can have a vacation memory implanted (the next best thing to being there) and strange things start to happen. In a nut shell, he starts to remember things, ends up winning the girl (not Sharon Stone) , solving the crime and saving the world, except this time it is Mars and not Earth. What’s a few million miles between species.
In one of the scenes, Arnold is confronted by one of the bad guys playing a psychiatrist. They are trying to convince him that he has had fake memories implanted and that something has gone wrong. He is suffering from delusions that he is a “spy” and the clinical term is that he has a schizoid embolism. I love the term. Of course Arnold is not fooled and ends up capping the guy in the head.
It is a far fetched film with aliens and oxygen generation machinery but it is packed with action and the usual Arnold flair. The visual effects are alright with the worst being when Arnold has to pull a bugging device out of his nostril using a metal claw. His nose expands in a grotesque way that looks rather fake. The best scene is of him running through the x-ray machine. We all have our idea of cool. Having said that…
Icool
Cobb
One of my co-workers thought that insane sounded better than being crazy. It was the end of the day and the usual chaos and mayhem had ensued. Being tired and ready to go home, anything is open for discussion. I immediately started making connections to other obscure channels of insanity and viola, the term schizoid embolism popped right into the forefront of my brain. I know, it is an odd connection but after all we were discussing semantics of mental health.
Arnold’s character in Total Recall is what Jethro Bodine calls a double naught spy who has had his mind wiped clean. Sharon Stone stars as his “wife”. He stops by a place called Recall on the way home from work to see if he can have a vacation memory implanted (the next best thing to being there) and strange things start to happen. In a nut shell, he starts to remember things, ends up winning the girl (not Sharon Stone) , solving the crime and saving the world, except this time it is Mars and not Earth. What’s a few million miles between species.
In one of the scenes, Arnold is confronted by one of the bad guys playing a psychiatrist. They are trying to convince him that he has had fake memories implanted and that something has gone wrong. He is suffering from delusions that he is a “spy” and the clinical term is that he has a schizoid embolism. I love the term. Of course Arnold is not fooled and ends up capping the guy in the head.
It is a far fetched film with aliens and oxygen generation machinery but it is packed with action and the usual Arnold flair. The visual effects are alright with the worst being when Arnold has to pull a bugging device out of his nostril using a metal claw. His nose expands in a grotesque way that looks rather fake. The best scene is of him running through the x-ray machine. We all have our idea of cool. Having said that…
Icool
Cobb
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