The Great Flood: Why did An-na create the simulation? Details from latest Netflix sci-fi drama, revealed

'It's happening again' is a trope, and it's happening again in a Korean movie called The Great Flood, which combines a biblical event and technology that, at first, seems like it's about saving humanity, but it's eventually about a mother trying to save her child. Which then might be used to 'save the humanity.'

The mother in the film tries, like, 7993 times to save her kid, because, guess what, it is all happening in a simulation. A time loop, if you want to put it like that, which is something you might have seen in the Jake Gyllenhaal film Source Code (2011) and Edge of Tomorrow (2014), though the latter wasn't a simulation. Even video games like 2014's Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare have it.

The latest film can be confusing at times, and the simulation this mother named An-na created is at the core of the story. But why did she create such a simulation? You are about to find out.

The purpose of An-na's simulation in The Great Flood

The world is coming to an end in the latest film, and the plan is to save humanity by repopulating it by creating artificial beings, whom the scientists will make perfect by finding a way to develop emotions in them. Think of the Blade Runner films.

You won't find how An-na created this simulation, but the purpose of this is to give the digital characters in it a task to understand things and hope they'll develop emotions. She herself has a digital character in it, and as the original An-na dies, she has told one of her colleagues what to do with this program. Which is, basically, keep running the simulation, because what more can a simulation do?

An-na has a child, though not biological, but artificial. More like an android, called Ja-in. Of course, how can an android develop emotions? Well, the movie has an answer to it, a device called the Emotion Engine, which helps these 'softwares' identify and learn emotions.

It is a success. An-na's digital avatar, after so many attempts to save her child, did learn the emotions. We won't spoil how she does that, so you should watch the movie for yourself to see what actually happens in it.

The Great Flood isn't about saving humanity, not in the slightest

At first glance, The Great Flood might give off vibes that it is trying to save humanity. It doesn't. Hell, it isn't even trying to save life. The scientists in it have seen what awaits our planet, and all they can think of is to create artificial beings so they can repopulate what they may call 'humans.'

If that happens, these scientists in The Great Flood are trying to play God themselves. All in all, when the plan is to 'save' humanity from a potential extinction from a catastrophic event, these scientists are basically vanishing the human race itself.

The only message this film gives us is that we shouldn't let artificial technology win at all costs.