What appears to be a simple life reveals complexities after disaster. A woman working at an AI company is too concerned about her job to pay proper attention to her child, and it is through seperation--the motivation that disaster brings--that she finds herself fighting for something else, which would be a completely irrational goal otherwise. The idea that life could be such a cut and dry thing battles with the conception of an amorphous world veiw put together by passion and attachment rather than logic. The dreamlike nature of this movie paints a world that revolves around, is created by, the flooding of a massive apartment building. There is widespread flooding, but the focus of this film is on the building itself, making this movie a personal journey for the main character, and allowing the veiwer to be sympathetic toward her struggles. What she is fighting for is ultimately the sacrifice inherent in care, the nature of every human being. You'll see when you watch it.

I liked the consistency, that the movie held off until everything was overloaded with tension, which at the critical moment blossomed into a surreal flower, through distortions of space and time, through multiple cycles and attempts to save, to recall, to strive in and of itself and recover some quality of familiarity--in a nutshell, the fragility of all of our lives, the intangibility of attachment, the forces guarding, preventing, ensuring success and what that might look like.

The impossibility of seperating the intangible from the tangible is ultimately what drives this movie. And to frame that in a world of complete disaster is a message I think we need in this world, as disasters continue to happen more and more, and in many of the situations we see in our world, it is the same battle we have--that we cannot seperate the impersonal from the personal, not even the human from the machine. More and more it seems we are trying to reconcile one with the other, or replace one with the other, or beyond that to think there is one correct way, when everything is relative, as are space and time, as this movie illustrates beautifully.