David Cronenberg's Darker Take On Total Recall We Never Got To See

Philip K. Dick's 1966 short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" is a clever, brief little sci-fi yarn that plays more like an setup/punchline joke than an actual adventure story. Set in the not-too-distant future, it follows a man named Douglas Quail who goes to a special clinic called Rekal, Inc. that can deliberately implant false memories into the human brain, allowing their customer to remember an elaborate adventure vacation without actually having to go anywhere or experience...