examples: matrix, shutter island, the game, donnie darko, inception, jacob's ladder, tale of two sisters (and american remake), awake, total recall, occurrence at owl creek bridge, Blood C, sword art online, fake namek on dbz, episode on BTVS where she is in a coma, episode of batman TAS when the mad hatter put bruce into a dream world

where the protagonist spends most of the movie in a fake world doing some quest, fighting villains, protecting someone, etc. then at the end they realize it's all fake.

anime, live action, tv series, movies, books, short stories, etc.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Oct 13 2013 01:03am

Doonie Darko, Inception

saw them both. adding to original post

Total Recall, the Arnie one ofc.

The others
Inception
Sucker Punch
The truman show
The Cell
eXistenZ
Tron
Tron Legacy
Source code
Dark City
Avalon
Imaginaerum

Ones off the top of my head where the reality in the movie isn't the real reality. Or they jump into another world within that reality.

How about

Dogtooth
Total recall (1990)
Truman show
The Machinist
Existenz
Paprika
Naked Lunch
Upstream colour
Tideland
The Village
Identity
American psycho
Haute tension

This post was edited by BebebBurns on Oct 13 2013 01:01am

havent heard of most of them. will look into them

American Psysho was "reality", he did daydream a few times
but he let those dreams turned into his reality because the world is really like that - cold and careless.

This post was edited by card_sultan on Oct 13 2013 06:08am

That tom cruise movie with lucid dreams

minority report?


Dogtooth is arguable.