Since a young age, I have always been introduced and taught about Asian culture. My family are quite adventurous and growing up I had the privilege of travelling all over the world, including Asia and exploring Asian culture. I am surprised that Love For Sale (2018) was the first Indonesian film I have watched, and to be completely honest, this movie was not up to my standards.

For this film, I have taken an ethnographic approach from my personal experience which includes live tweeting to interact with other students and get a further understanding of Indonesian culture. “Auto-Ethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyse personal experience in order to understand cultural experience.” (Ellis, Adams & Bochner 2011)

This movie follows Richard Achmad as he is on the hunt for love after his friends made a…