12 Movies That Made You Work Out The Answer Yourself

8. Total Recall

The Question: Was Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) actually a secret agent, or was his trip to Mars merely an implanted memory?

Total Recall giddily plays with reality throughout its runtime, goading the audience to consider whether the events they're watching are actually playing out, or merely the result of a fabricated memory within Quaid's mind.

After all, when Quaid goes to Rekall, the shell plot of the movie is basically laid out to him, and a technician even mentions the "blue sky" from the very end of the film, suggesting we are experiencing his false memory all the way to the credits.

Some fans believe that the "schizoid embolism" Quaid appears to suffer is merely part of the fantasy, to better convince the recipient that the secret agent adventure is legit.

Others, of course, are dead set on Quaid's adventure being real, while director Paul Verhoeven won't give one side credence over the other, as suits the film's reality-warping core theme wonderfully.