A groundhog day kind of sci-fi with a twist on reality. This movie is a must watch! Thank you for joining us once again as we extend our inquisition into the South Korean film industry in our quest for more understanding. Enjoy the life lesson of this unique movie.
- Doom
Hee-jo (Park Hae-soo) from the personal security team succeeds in retrieving Koo An Na (Kim Da-mi) and her Son Ja In (Kwon Eun-sung) from the flooded third floor and tells Koo that humanity is doomed because of an asteroid that hit Antarctica melting all ice bergs causing the sea to flood. The great flood is a movie about an apocalyptic sequence of destruction by flooding just like the various accounts available in different religions and cultures around the world. Our world which was meant to prosper and inhabit the cosmos, became one bonded to doom or end due to our acceptance of wrongness. The correct thing is for our world to be established in the heavens but our acceptance of wrongness rejects the correction and accepts total destruction. Remember we are one with the cosmic bodies, just like we mentioned in the movie review of 'The Dry'. Its not about outsmarting the process at the expense of others, but rather about wholly and joyfully accepting what is right and just, so that we can all live in harmony. Afterall, what's so sad or bad about accepting to live peacefully in respect of your brother's rights?
- Time Calculations
The great flood is symbolic of apocalyptic occurrences in our world that resets time and cuts short our human race progress. It is symbolic of the restarting or reseeding of our world. Just like mythical Prometheus who needs to take the border back to the beginning of the cliff. Noah's flood like the history of other total destruction by waters evident in various cultures, is similar to the total destruction sequences of star wars or apocalyptic warfare that has befallen the human race. Therefore, our time calculations are wrong! Our world might be much older than scientist predict with carbon dating technology. This should explain the evidences of technological advancements in primitive cave drawings and other archaeological findings. It means such drawings are left by survivals of a failed civilization and were reseeded to restart the human race from the primitive age. We should overcome the deceit of enmity and build a better world in respect of one another. See the issue titled 'STORIES, IMAGES, AND KNOWLEDGE FROM ANCIENT TIMES' for more understanding.
- The Great Test
The great test to prevent the total destruction of our world is a test to choose love over selfishness. A test to be your brother's keeper by acting with responsibility and accountability. Most people fail the test, and those who pass suffer till they die of hoping for a better day, because our world is overrun and ruled by those who fail. Human beings are inherently selfish. Koo An Na finally realizes she's being tested by the sequence of the trapped elevator girl, and the sequence of assisting the woman in child birth labor. Koo helps Lee Ji Su (Yuna) and saves her and Lee in turn returns to save Koo.
In reality, do not mistake being selfish for being loving. True love works for the good of all things, not the selfishness of self satisfaction or gratification.
Not only do we often fail the great test, we actively celebrate our failure. In the Christian Bible the crowd shouted 'Barnabas, give us Barnabas' whether the crowd were bonded to wrongness on under mental control, no one knows but the loving innocent Jesus was condemned and a guilty criminal was accepted. Metaphorically speaking; There are various instances in life were we choose Barnabas over Jesus. Examples of such situations include; cheating someone out of love, committing fraud, condemning someone unjustly, oppressing the poor, using religion as a front for wickedness, instigating war, bad governance, unethical business practices, etc. Like we mentioned in our movie review of 'Carry-On', what we deny would come back to hurt us really bad. Apocalyptic destruction sequences are one of such ways that karma attempts to redefine our human mentality. We are going no where with our selfish tendencies.
- Stages of Understanding
Koo's sequences are reminiscent of life's stages as she gradually understands the things she needs to do in order to fair better. In reality, everyone goes through various stages of awareness. For example, the author of this website elaborately describes his sojourn through painful awareness in the eBooks available on this website. If you read the books from the first to the fourth, you'd notice a change in perception as the author became more aware, and more changes in the Addendum section of the Our Perspective page.
Do not beat yourself up about things you didn't fully understand or the mistakes you made due to a lack of understanding. Instead think of what appropriate line of action you should take to improve the circumstances. Think of what you can do now, not what you should have done.
You can find streaming sources for this movie on the links below.
Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81579978
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29927663/
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