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  The Great Flood is the latest Korean sci-fi/apocalypse movie streaming on Netflix, directed and co-written by Kim Byung-woo ( The Terror Live , Take Point , Omniscient Reader ).  What the Movie Is About On the surface,  The Great Flood begins like a classic disaster movie: a catastrophic flood engulfs Seoul after an asteroid impact, leaving people in a sinking apartment building struggling to survive.  An-na (Kim Da-mi), an artificial intelligence researcher, and her young son Ja-in (Kwon Eun-seong) cling to hope as the waters rise. They’re separated, reunited, and forced upward through the building, encountering panic, loss, and danger along the way.  Hee-jo (Park-Hae-soo, Squid Game ), a security operative sent to rescue them, adds another layer of urgency and mystery to their journey.  But halfway through the film, the narrative dramatically shifts into high-concept science fiction: what you thought was literal reality turns out to be part o...