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How far do you believe film narrative can be approached as a formula? When I first started being interested in filmmaking, I thought the world of good narrative. Coming from a country (Indonesia) where the film industry is in a complete mess, I really believed that a clever and interesting narrative, with realistic and meaningful dialogues is the key to a successful film. This somewhat started me on a journey to find a good story to write for my own. Realistically, it is a difficult task to try and conjure up an interesting and distinct narrative to put on a film, especially when it’s only based on something you made up in your head. Then I started to think differently in order to solve this dilemma, instead of attempting to write a good story, I opted to explore the development of characters in the story: three-dimensional human beings that you’re around with in