Jung_E Ending Explained: Why is There a War? Netflix Film Explained
There are movies that don’t have to be completely good for you to have an entertaining time in front of the screen. This is the case with Jung_E, a tape that moves the codes of tapes on artificial intelligence (AI) very well. The ending is very emotional, beyond the well-known fight choreography and computer-driven scenes that are common in these productions. The director of Jung_E is Yeon Sag-ho, the same as Hellbound, a series that was very well-received on Netflix. In this new proposal on the streaming service, the story focuses on the development of a military AI, which would eventually serve to end a civil war in the future. If you have already seen the film and you have some doubts about the development and end of the feature film, in the following lines we are going to clear them up. As usual, we warn you that spoilers are coming.
Why is There a War?
The context of the film is as follows: in the year 2194, humanity lives in space due to the consequences of climate change. There are shelters between the Earth and the Moon. We assume that this is due to caste and poverty, as will be shown later with the purchase of brains for cloning and the sale of human rights. Likewise, there are people who support themselves thanks to the assistance of organizations that distribute food and professionals who can live off their jobs. Humanity is in danger because three of the refugees declared themselves against the so-called Republic of Adrian.
This conflict has lasted for decades, although the tape does not give details of this confrontation. What is known is that the government is desperately looking for a solution to deal with killing machines that are after humans (yes, we all remember “Terminator” at this point). Obviously, the industries that thrive the most in the midst of wars are those that work with weapons. Kronoid is precisely a company that experiments to create the ultimate lethal weapon. It is about a fighter named Jung_E (Kim Hyun-Joo), a clone of a warrior who died in combat.
Who is Jung_E?
Jung_E is a cloning project, the idea is to have a military leader who is capable of overcoming the greatest adversities, a kind of “Universal Soldier” (we continue citing classics), based on repetition of stimuli. We are quickly informed that this prototype is based on a former leader of the Allied Forces. This combatant became a legend after dying during a battle with the machines. Before passing away, the Government signed an agreement with the leader’s family to clone her. The first plot twist occurs when we find out that one of the heads of the cloning project is really the daughter of the warrior, Yoon (Kang Soo-Yeon).
As a child, Yoon was operated on the same day that Jung-E faced an important battle, in which she did not survive. This has a major impact on the future. First, the girl’s grandmother signed the rights for the mother’s brain to be cloned and thus have money for the little girl’s health. Then, because it is Yoon’s action, during that last meeting between mother and daughter at the clinic, prevents the Yung-E project from being completed.
Jung-E Ending Explained
Once Jung-E is revealed to be the mother of scientist Yoon, events accelerate. The head of the project has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. So in a certain way, the operation that they carried out when Jung-E had to go to war, did not change the events much, at least not for the head of the cloning research. However, for Jung-E yes, because that day the little girl gave her a little doll that is the one that takes the warrior’s concentration in the confrontation with the machines. That is, every time she is distracted by looking for a second at the “amulet”, she is fatally shot by the enemy.
On the other hand, as the Government gives citizens three options to clone themselves (A, B and C), Yoon learns that when the project is canceled, after signing the armistice between the conflicting parties, his mother will become a model. dedicated to an easement (for having option C, which gives full rights to the State). Later she discovers that it is worse: they are experimenting on her for sexual purposes. In this collage of emotions, the scientist decides to bet on her mother’s freedom. However, for that to happen, she must erase what unites them, a sensitive part of her brain. That area allows Jung_E to remember what happened before going into battle: the scene when she wishes her daughter good luck, and her little girl gives her the doll.
This is how Yoon takes out Jung_E’s brain and puts it into a faceless artificial intelligence. This is obviously so that the allied forces and Kronoid members cannot recognize her. That is, she gives him a new identity. Eventually, this humanoid has several fights, which include Yoon’s boss, and another artificial intelligence (Yun Ki-Chang). In all prevails, however, there is collateral damage, the scientist is injured in the brawl. Let’s recap before the final blow: Jung_E failed over and over again in his mission because he was distracted by remembering that he had left his daughter alone on the day of the operation. Yoon, many years later, has the option of giving some freedom to her mother’s brain, which inhabits the body of an android. She decides to tell her everything that has happened and helps her run away from her. But to do so, she must erase the memories they share as a family.
So, starting from the above, Jung_E is not completely Jung_E but an artificial intelligence without family memories (the zone that was activated and that the scientists could not understand). However, in the final scene, before saying goodbye to her, the “robot” rubs her face against Yoon’s, the same gesture she made of her when she was her mother. This means that Jung_E still has past life memories of her.
