The ideas

 INITIAL IDEAS

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+ Sovereignty in space → oversimplification of autocracy in spaces? (more like feudalism?)	+ ordinary characters (Edward Scissorhands , Don’t worry darling, Stepford Wives) juxtaposed abnormal occurence with ordinary setting, to set distorted nostalgic bait	+  + ordinary character that focus mainly on their personal struggle → over exhaustion of resources. Post apocalytic-inspired

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+	Psychological thriller of internet culture, of how intergrated it is (rational ignorance vs. underconsumption)	Psychological thriller of overexhaustion of work → staying up late, urban life, waking up mid-class → characters diminish their struggle, wrapped around their perspectives

FURTHER INITIAL IDEAS

✨ Idea 2: Hyperrealism of a Saigonese

→ Genre: Psychological Thriller

Time period: 

Modern days

• Ho Chi Minh city is in transitional phase of urban skyscraper and old, vintage alleyways
• Create underlying conflicts of old and new, and feeling of unfit.

Setting - Main theme:

• A young person, having been in HCM city for their whole life, struggles to find everything distorted.
• Internal conflict of the main character and feeling not fitting in

Plot:

• At first, everything is very normal, ordinary
• The character wakes up at night, sweating profusely. Their mom and dad enter the room to calm him down, but their sayings are weird
• The main character thinks about their day, how it would be repetitive of everyday
• The 2 next day the same, until their friends invite them out to an old coffee shop
• That day their parents get more strange, and so do their friends. A friend disappears into the dark alleyway

Character: : 

• Family: traditional, strict, preachy and idealistic
• Friend: Modern, progressive, a bit pressuring, condemn otherness. 
• MC: Self-inserted. Blank, doesn’t have an individualistic trait

The juxtaposition between the family and the friends exxagerated the internal conflict the main character felt, as how much of a different and mixture of cultures they have to keep up with both sides, as both represent each of their soul.  

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✨ Idea 6: Burnt out and overwork

→ Genre: Psychological thriller

Time period: 

Modern days

• Location is not restricted nor an intergral part of the premise of the opening sequence

Setting - Main theme:

• A person, from the young age to the peak of adolescence, feel trapped inside the loop of constant working.

• Their various achievements, trophies on display

Plot:

• They discussing their test results with the principal, with various staffs, administrators and teachers
• Their daily lives consisted of staying up late doing work, promoting unhealthy standard, to strive for academic achievements. 
• Juxtaposed with them doing personal leisure, entertaining their hobbies, etc, as they wanted to hold a piece of themselves back from insane work load.
• At the end of the opening, their parents announcing that they would have to change school. Which, to them, was equivalent of losing everything they've tried to achieve. 

Character: 

• MC: Self-inserted. Blank, doesn’t have an individualistic trait