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.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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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  -