Chasing Dream and Change Destiny: Understanding Gender Gap in Film Ali & Ratu-Ratu Queens
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220304.021How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Gender gap; Indonesian film; Ali & Ratu-Ratu Queens; Chasing dream
- Abstract
Being a wife and mother are two words that become the ultimate weapon to label women and their role in Indonesia. A woman’s life will be considered perfect if she is married and has children. If a woman has achieved all that, she will be questioned if she still wants something else. This study will discuss the gender gap in chasing dream and aspiration between woman and man that portrayed in the Indonesian film Ali & Ratu-Ratu Queens (2021). This study uses a multimodal discourse analysis method, an approach that looks at multiple modes of communication such as text, colour, images, and interaction with one another to create semiotic meaning. The result showed that, even though both Mia (female character) and Ali (male symbol) went to the United States to pursue the American Dream, but it was easier for Ali to conquer his aspiration. Meanwhile, the complexity raised when Mia willing to chase her dream. As a married woman with child, Mia was faced with a choice between family or plan. Meanwhile, Ali tends to have the privilege to leave his family without stigma. Social message that showed in the film is, a part of woman’s social identity of being a wife and mother, she still has personal identity (self) to embrace.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ranny Rastati PY - 2022 DA - 2022/03/28 TI - Chasing Dream and Change Destiny: Understanding Gender Gap in Film Ali & Ratu-Ratu Queens BT - Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Gender Studies (WCGS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 144 EP - 149 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220304.021 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220304.021 ID - Rastati2022 ER -