Pain Points

1. FADE IN

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3. Act 1

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5. INT. STUDY - 09:30

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7. PETER is reading a rights issue of shares notification.

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9. PETER (V.O.): Recently, I've dealt with such corporate actions.

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11. Pausing.

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13. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The deadline date for subscription of this stock is today.

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15. Peter grabs his smartphone to check his bank accounts.

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17. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): My pain point is that I may have a cashflow problem.

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19. Checking.

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21. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Oh, I still have sufficient funds to do this one. It's selling at $9.00 a share.

23. Checking the stocks real-time trading price, Peter sees "$0.094".

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25. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): OMG! If I didn't investigate and bought at $9.00, it will be my big pain point.

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27. Act 2

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29. FLASHBACK

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31. Peter sees "Memories" on phone screen. We see an image with the caption "Break Even".

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33. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): In Sept, 2021, I began taking the risk to invest, but I didn't do any investigations.

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35. Pausing.

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37. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): At the beginning, I was doing well and so I invested more. Then the downturn...

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39. Pausing.

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41. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): In Feb, 2022, I had a few days breaking-even on my investment. After that, I've been losing.

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43. Pausing.

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45. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Trying to lower my pain, I averaged down and soon I exhausted all my idle money in stocks.

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47. Pausing.

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49. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): As the market now doesn't have any direction, I prefer to stay put.

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51. Pausing.

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53. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): But I feel pain in my cashflow problem.

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55. Recalling.

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57. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Yesterday night, having skyped with my children overseas, I dropped my iPhone Pro Max.

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59. Recalling.

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61. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): It's corner landed hard on one of my toes.

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63. Recalling.

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65. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Although it's round-edged, I still felt like a hammer hammering hard on it.

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67. Peter rubs one of his toes with Ammeltz.

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69. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Then, I thought about whether I preferred the physical pain than to accept damage to my smartphone.

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71. Thinking.

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73. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): If I could prevent the smartphone landing hard on the floor with my foot, I'd do it.

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75. Pausing.

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77. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The mockery is that I seem to care more about materialistic things than my physical well-being.

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79. Recalling.

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81. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Incidentally, I've been focusing on playing the piano.

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83. Pausing.

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85. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I've stiff fingers.

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87. Pausing.

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89. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I should have picked up the skill a long time ago.

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91. Thinking.

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93. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): As I'll be busy from afternoon onwards, I hope that I could swim in the morning.

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95. Pausing.

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97. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): And then, it dawns on me that the clubhouse swimming pool is closed for cleansing on Monday mornings.

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99. RETURN TO PRESENT

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101. Act 3

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103. INT. STUDY - 14:00

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105. Peter looks refreshing.

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107. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I've just gone to a public swimming pool to swim.

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109. Pausing.

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111. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Having relaxed my fingers and toes, I feel less pain now.

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113. Pausing.

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115. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Tomorrow, I'll attend in a HKUST Unicorn Day, I'll be hearing more about customers' pain points.

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117. FADE OUT

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119. THE END