South Korean dystopian thriller on Netflix
Netflix has announced significant leadership changes and a major round of layoffs as it grapples with slowing engagement and fierce competition. The company has replaced Bela Bajaria with Peter Rice and is restructuring its film unit, while still pursuing a streaming-first strategy and exploring limited theatrical windows for certain titles.
YEON’s latest film Paradise Lost revisits the AI-driven surrogate for a missing son, exploring grief, memory, and the ethics of synthetic relationships. The story follows a mother who spends nine years with an AI version of her child, before the real Sun-woo returns, forcing a reckoning on what constitutes identity and connection.