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In the months that followed, we couldn’t get Otso out of our minds. What the hell was that, and why did we like it? We know that it’s about the writing process, but who is the writer? Is it Lex, the Fil-American aspiring scriptwriter played by Vince Tañada (who actually co-wrote the screenplay of Otso)? Is it Brent (Gabby Bautista), Lex’s bright and nosy 10-year-old neighbor who critiques his script-in-progress? Is it Alice Lake, the seemingly all-knowing owner of the building who also happens to be the actress Anita Linda (and is played by the actual Anita Linda, whose real name is Alice Lake)? And when she tells Lex, “You don’t have a mother, but I have played mother to Fernando Poe, Jr, Joseph Estrada, Nora Aunor and Vilma Santos, and I can be your mother…” is she just being a batty old lady, or is she giving us the key to crack the code of Otso?

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