Total Recall turned 30 this year and on top of being peak, early 90's science fiction action spectacle, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Paul Verhoeven crafted a sneaky brilliant treatise on the nature of memory and the self. Starting from a short story by the king of all sci fi adaptations, Philip K. Dick, We Can Remember If For You Wholesale was just a 20 page short story first published a 1966 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. So how did fewer than two dozen pages turn into the pulpy 1990 classic and a remake we don't need to talk about? It's time to ask, What's the Difference?

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