Netflix’s The Great Flood is not just another disaster movie with chaos, water and heroic rooftop rescues. The movie stars Park Hae-soo and Kin Da-mi and dives headfirst into maternal love, AI and a simulation twist.
Spoilers ahead
The flood in the movie destroying Seoul is totally virtual. A lot of harrowing moments were experienced by An-na and her son Ja-in. All of these moments were part of a simulation designed to test the Emotion Engine. Emotion Engine is a technology that asks the question: Can synthetic humans actually feel?
We find out that An-na and Ja-in are synthetic beings. They were recreated after the real An-na perished in an actual flood. The thousands of scenarios she faced were not punishment but lessons in sacrifice, maternal instinct and genuine love.
The artificial intelligence scientists ran tens of thousands of simulations to perfect human emotions in synthetic humans. The early cycles face where people crash. However, after every cycle, An-na grows with every attempt.
The Emotion Engine succeeds in the end. Synthetic An-na and Ja-in board a spacecraft with other recreated humans. Earth is habitable but watery. Humanity can survive in emotionally complete artificial beings. The movie sends a direct message that existence is meaningless without love and experience.
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