This review may contain spoilers
The great flood
I think a lot of people misunderstood The Great Flood because they watched it as a disaster movie. This isn’t a movie about a flood. The flood is just the setting where everything collapses.
At the beginning, we learn that An-na is an AI researcher working with the government. Years before the disaster, the government already knew an asteroid was coming. They didn’t tell the public. Instead, they pushed for a project meant to preserve humanity.
An-na’s experiment was a child.
She created him artificially and raised him as her own son. Not as a lab subject but as a real child. She fed him, protected him, and loved him. She wanted to perfect the child first. The government wanted her to create the mother next.
When the flood begins, the authorities come for the child and for An-na who is a researcher. The child is left behind.
Before An-na leaves, she tells the child to hide and wait for her on the terrace. That moment is devastating, because she believes she’ll come back. And he believes her.
She doesn’t. she can recreate the child the way she did before.
An-na goes to space as part of the final survival mission, but her vessel is struck by the asteroid. She’s dying. And in that moment, she chooses to become the experiment too.
She decides to enter the system as a mother.
That’s when the loop begins.
The flooding apartment, the repeating scenes, the desperation none of it is random. It’s an emotional simulation. An AI trying to develop something that can’t be programmed. A mother’s grief and a child’s longing.
An-na keeps reliving the search for her son. The child keeps waiting, hoping she’ll find him. Both of them are reaching for each other across iterations, across failure. The system resets every time emotion falls short.
What makes it painful is that they *are* trying. Together. On opposite sides of the experiment.
In the end, the experiment succeeds not because they survive the flood, but because they finally find each other inside the simulation when reality denied them that chance. The new humans born from this project aren’t just intelligent. They carry memory, attachment, and loss.
That’s the real ending.
Reunion.
The tragedy of the movie is that they couldn’t stay together in real life. The beauty is that they did somewhere else.
People wanted a disaster movie. What they got was a story about a mother who loved her child so much and just wanted to reach him again.
And honestly? That’s why the movie stays with you.
At the beginning, we learn that An-na is an AI researcher working with the government. Years before the disaster, the government already knew an asteroid was coming. They didn’t tell the public. Instead, they pushed for a project meant to preserve humanity.
An-na’s experiment was a child.
She created him artificially and raised him as her own son. Not as a lab subject but as a real child. She fed him, protected him, and loved him. She wanted to perfect the child first. The government wanted her to create the mother next.
When the flood begins, the authorities come for the child and for An-na who is a researcher. The child is left behind.
Before An-na leaves, she tells the child to hide and wait for her on the terrace. That moment is devastating, because she believes she’ll come back. And he believes her.
She doesn’t. she can recreate the child the way she did before.
An-na goes to space as part of the final survival mission, but her vessel is struck by the asteroid. She’s dying. And in that moment, she chooses to become the experiment too.
She decides to enter the system as a mother.
That’s when the loop begins.
The flooding apartment, the repeating scenes, the desperation none of it is random. It’s an emotional simulation. An AI trying to develop something that can’t be programmed. A mother’s grief and a child’s longing.
An-na keeps reliving the search for her son. The child keeps waiting, hoping she’ll find him. Both of them are reaching for each other across iterations, across failure. The system resets every time emotion falls short.
What makes it painful is that they *are* trying. Together. On opposite sides of the experiment.
In the end, the experiment succeeds not because they survive the flood, but because they finally find each other inside the simulation when reality denied them that chance. The new humans born from this project aren’t just intelligent. They carry memory, attachment, and loss.
That’s the real ending.
Reunion.
The tragedy of the movie is that they couldn’t stay together in real life. The beauty is that they did somewhere else.
People wanted a disaster movie. What they got was a story about a mother who loved her child so much and just wanted to reach him again.
And honestly? That’s why the movie stays with you.
Was this review helpful to you?
