The Beast

In 2044, where an AI-run society treats emotion as a threat, Gabrielle submits to a DNA purification that immerses her in her past lives so their traumas can be erased. The whole film is built from those immersions, intercutting her 1910 Paris life, ending in the Great Flood, and her 2014 Los Angeles life, with Louis returning in every era, the same dread of catastrophe carried across lives, and glitches as the periods bleed into each other. The machine-mediated reliving of other eras shapes the entire narrative, which lifts it well above its provisional 5. It stops short of Mr. Nobody's 8 because these are past incarnations relived from within rather than travel or the same life revisited, and nothing in the past can be changed.

A purification procedure brings memories of past incarnations. The distributor describes recollection rather than intervention or travel; whether this exceeds reincarnation and memory alone remains uncertain.