REPRESENTASI PERLAWANAN WANITA DALAM FILM “MARLINA SI PEMBUNUH DALAM EMPAT BABAK”

Abstract

This study aims to determine about how media industry describe the struggle of women facing the threat of crime from men out there by displaying their subjectivity through androgynous personalities. this topic is very interesting to study, because androgynous personalities quite helping to pushing women to become like a men who has strong figure, tough, independent, and brave figure against social injustice to carry out heinous activities to gain power of themselves. As presented by the movie “Marlina Si Pembunuh Dalam Empat Babak”. The movie conveys information to audiences about territory that still creates the existence of gender bias towards women. It is based on the reconstruction from the real reality in the Sumba territory, it can be seen how women fight the system that exists in the midst of patriarchal tradition. This study using standpoint theory, liberal feminism, and three other concepts such as representation, women resistance, and female masculinity that leads to masculinity. This study uses a qualitative approach focusing on interpretive descriptive which is critical in Roland Barthes’ semiotic analysis method through lexia analysis and five existing reader codes which is hermeneutic code, pro-aretics code, symbolic code, cultural code, and semik code. The data of the research is collected through observing a scene that will be used as a source of object and conclusions that will be analyzed about Representation of Women Resistance in movie “Marlina Si Pembunuh Dalam Empat Babak” by taking documentation results from a few scenes which will be screenshot. The result of discussion carried out in this study shows the empowerment of women in carrying out their subjective actions against the patriarchal system that makes them gender biased. Because the media show the audiences that they often get repercussions from the patriarchal system that has shaped people’s view into deviant ideologies from various stereotypes of women. The stereotype considers women as people who are used to taking care of household domestic affairs as the Javanese proverb says: masak, macak, manak. This is a form of violence against women that often afflicts various oppressions that occur anywhere and anytime. The social system treats women unfairly because they have arbitrarily influenced them. This leads to the cultural element of feminism that will never stop instilling the ideology of the media to opress minorities. So that the audience will form the meaning of what the mass media displays for blaming the victims. Basically women are always used as a victims of sexual harassment or abuse because they deserve to be treated harshly by men. Besides that, showing movies in Indonesia also spreads elements of social construction unfairly which have created social inequality to bring down women and prioritize men as a domination of all aspects of life socially, legally, and politically. However, this makes them dare to come out of their roots of oppression by displaying an androgynous personalities as having a strong, tough, and independent figure. This is for the sake of continuity in the next life in order to have social welfare freely without any worries about the threat of men out there. Therefore, the media can represent when spreading ideology with positive things to be a material for improving the audiences’ point of view when looking at the depiction of gender. That way the audiences can receive information critically in shaping the meaning of the message that does not just take it for granted, but still has awareness when consuming what is displayed by media content. So that the audience does not fall into a deviant ideology.