With its AI robots, Blade Runner-like world and opening motion sequence, you may not expect Netflix’s Jung_E to emotionally wallop you within the chest.

From Yeon Sang-ho, director of 2016 zombie horror Practice to Busan, this sci-fi thriller follows a researcher and her staff as they try to seek out the important thing to creating the best AI fight robotic. A secret connection to the take a look at topic and moral questions of cloning human consciousness add problems. However primarily this can be a heartfelt story a couple of mother-daughter relationship navigating a war-torn, dystopian Earth.

The ending of Jung_E, defined

Within the 12 months 2135, local weather change and depleted sources have led humanity to outlive on colony shelters inbuilt area. For 40 years, three shelters that united because the Adrian Republic have been combating Earth’s Allied Forces.

Legendary Allied mercenary Captain Yun Jung-yi joins a mission to assault a gasoline rod in an Adrian shelter. She has an opportunity to make a vital shot however is distracted by a youngsters’s keychain. Her hand is shot, revealing that she’s additionally actually a robotic.

Yun shuts down, and it is revealed that she’s in a simulation. Thirty-five years beforehand, the true Yun failed the mission and ended up in a coma. A Kronoid Lab analysis staff, led by Yun’s daughter Dr. Yun Web optimization-hyun, cloned her consciousness, which will be repeatedly uploaded into androids.

For 5 years, they’ve been finding out Captain Yun’s mind map in a recreation of her ultimate mission, trying to make use of the info to create the best AI fight robotic. As soon as the android is ready to escape the simulation, the “Jung_E” program might be finalized. Then, Kronoid intends to fabricate the elite, loyal fight robotic for the Allied Forces to realize a successful benefit. It’ll additionally make Captain Yun an “everlasting hero.”

In a flashback, it is revealed that Captain Yun turned a mercenary to pay for her daughter Web optimization-hyun’s lung tumor therapy. On the identical day as Web optimization-hyun’s surgical procedure, Captain Yun ended up in a coma. As an grownup, Web optimization-hyun nonetheless feels responsible that, due to her, her mom could not dwell her life.

After an ethics take a look at to test she’s not an android, a health care provider reveals that Web optimization-hyun’s most cancers has now unfold to the remainder of her organs. She’s instructed she has three months to dwell. She may copy her consciousness right into a prosthetic physique free of charge, identical to her mom, however this may additionally imply her mind knowledge will be bought to firms and used to make clones.

On a go to to the lab, Kronoid Chairman informs Web optimization-hyun that the Adrian Struggle is coming to an finish and that weapons manufacturing, together with of the fight AIs, will stop. In an interview with Web optimization-hyun, Jung_E reveals the keychain that distracted her was given to her by her daughter for power and safety. She needed to discover it as a result of her daughter instructed her to not lose it. Realizing that is what brought about her to fail her mission, Web optimization-hyun deletes all reminiscence of herself from Jung_E’s mind.

Earlier than the simulations are delivered to an finish, Web optimization-hyun tells the final Jung_E android the reality of who she is, deleting another authentic knowledge in order that it could actually not be used to create extra Kronoid merchandise, together with Captain Yun intercourse dolls.

Within the ultimate simulation, Jung_E seems to be shot lifeless, however when her physique is taken to be destroyed, she escapes because of Web optimization-hyun’s steering. Web optimization-hyun transfers her mind right into a fundamental android they usually depart on a practice. In a combat with Director Kim, who is actually an android of the younger Kronoid chairman, Web optimization-hyun is shot. After Kim is killed, Web optimization-hyun tells Jung_E to go away her behind and dwell just for herself. Jung_E escapes and, now freed from the lab’s simulations, appears to be like out onto an unlimited, open mountainous panorama.