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The Next Picture Show

Muscled Memories, Pt. 1 - Total Recall (1990)

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Paul Verhoven's '90 blockbuster traffics in some heady notions of memory and identity - not unlike the new 90s-set "Captain Marvel."

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:05.0

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:12.0

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:19.0

Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

0:26.4

I'm Keith Phipps here with...

0:27.8

Genevieve Kosky.

0:28.8

Scott Tobias.

0:29.7

Today we're...

0:31.3

What are we doing again?

0:32.7

Don't you remember, Keith?

0:33.8

Keith?

0:34.3

Are you okay?

0:35.2

Do you need us to jog your memory?

0:36.8

Memory.

0:37.4

Okay, there it is. This

0:39.3

week we're talking about two science fiction films deeply interested in the question of memory and how

0:43.5

it relates to our identity. Well, okay, deeply might be too strong on a word, but both are somewhat

0:48.2

concerned about memory and identity, even if they're always at least as concerned about keeping the action

0:52.8

moving and explosions exploding.

0:55.0

Genevieve, can you tell us more?

0:56.7

Sure.

0:57.4

Captain Marvel, the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to focus squarely on a female protagonist,

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