India, Dec. 21 -- With a movie as conceptually dense as Netflix's The Great Flood, the ending is designed to unsettle rather than reassure. What begins as a grounded disaster story about a mother fighting rising waters to save her son, slowly transforms into a reflection on extinction, artificial life and the cost of human emotion. By the time the movie reaches its final moments, viewers are left questioning not just whether the flood was real, but whether the woman they have been following is human at all. To understand how the catastrophe, the time loop and the Emotion Engine connect, here is a clear breakdown of The Great Flood and in its ambiguous final act.

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