tags: AI, disaster, Korean, mystery, Netflix movie, sci-fi
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐out of 5
from Netflix
When a raging flood traps a researcher and her young son, a call to a crucial mission puts their escape — and the future of humanity — on the line.
I loved the movie. Visuals, acting, dialog, and CGI are very good. One of my favorite Korean actresses, Kim Da-mi stars as the "mother".
It is part disaster, sci fi and mystery, I was confused at first but I stayed on watching the seemingly endless time loop similar to Tom Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow.
When researcher An-na died, her memories and emotions were used to create an AI version of a mother who genuinely cares for her child, recreating it over and over again until they are ready to be sent to Earth and repopulate it after devastation from the flood disaster.
Viewers who love a disaster movie will be disappointed because the story is about AI and how it might become useful in the future. The movie is not for everybody but will be appreciated more by true science fiction fans.
Spoilers
The movie opens with mother and son in their third floor apartment, just waking up when water suddenly started flowing on the floor. An-na, the mother got a phone call that she will be met at the rooftop to be transported somewhere. The flooding was caused by an asteroid and the whole Earth will be engulfed. An-na is a researcher in a company working in AI, had to be rescued.
The boy is not her son but a simulacrum created in a lab outside Earth. She suggested that they experiment with a baby, giving him a mother's love to resemble a real person until he gets older. On his fifth year, the asteroid and the great flood happened. That's why it is imperative that they be removed from the apartment and transported to the satellite facility.
