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After the new order, the freedom of expression, especially for film makers, gain a free space and broader opportunity. When the new order era, government use a repressive control on the film maker expressive process, then in the reform era, film maker get their open room to produce their masterpiece. Films with rendering mainstream theme, such as Gie, Marsinah, Pasir Berbisik, Berbagi Suami, Arisan, Jamila dan Sang Presiden, Mereka Bilang Saya Monyet and also a couple of other film with prohibited substance, are much produced these years. Eventhough it was only in small quantity but enough to describe the presence in better freedom of expression for film maker. However, films with mainstream theme still dominating. It includes teen drama, comedy, horror, and children movies. Especially in representing women and men, as one of the example, women always were being stereotyped as weak, fragile, irrational, riddle. In the opposite side, men were being stereotyped as strong, rational and dominant. Film produced in the midst of violence theme for women, with women being portrays beyond its? mainstream is interesting to investigate. This study will examine a movie titled Mereka Bilang Saya Monyet created by women director, Djenar Mesa Ayu, this movie describes the violent and resistant on women against violence. Film by women director was chosen considering women has a different point of view in perceiving women issues. To answer the research problem, literature on theory related with reality construction by the media, media and gender, media and representation, critical discourse analysis by Norman Fairclough. Methods used in this study are critical discourse analysis by Norman Fairclough, the use of critical discourse analysis is to investigate deeper on violence discourse and women resistance, which are not only seen from the text but also from social politic context behind a produced text. The discourse of violence revealed in a movie titled Mereka Bilang Saya Monyet, based on parents? violence on female adolescents; adult men on female adolescents and this movie disclose the resistance discourse by women against violence. On the level of violence between parents and children, the dimension of violence revealed was shaped in a form of physical, psychological, and participant violence. Violence occurred when there are uneven relations between subject and object, the subject posses a dominant position and object (children) is in sub ordinate position. This violence creates certain effects, such as scare, anger, humiliate, and unworthy. Related with social reality, in the context of Indonesian culture, parents were being positioned as powerful on their children, and repressive domination was considered as common. Violence on the level of male adult to female adolescent within the dimension of physical, psychological and sexual violence, there are domination based on gender and this violence create a traumatic effects. The discourse on gender based violence is the result of patriarchy culture construction, and in reality among community, gender based violence is consider as private, occurred within domestic area, thus inappropriate to be revealed. There are still common perception among society that sexual violence based on gender if it is being revealed, will generate a social sanction from society, even in reality, the victim is the one who suffer. The resistance discourse against violence were described in a form that women, either in adolescent age or as an adult, will create a tremendous effects. It is not easy to illustrate to other people, the feeling of a women. Men domination in gender relation conveys an effect of women position is being subordinated, men posses power on women body, man are allowed to carry a relationship with many woman, while it is inappropriate for women to posses relationship with more than one men. There are inequality and unmerited gender. The discourse reveal in this film is, women should not only quiet and accepting this unjust, through the main role named Ajeng, described through how women resistant against inequality. Within this context, social reality indicates only a few women who are able to divulge such an opposition. The conclusion of this study is, the discourse of violence represented is a reflection of parents and men domination, create a pain and physiologic trauma on children until they grew up. Violence creates a complex problematic, not only on legal problem, but also social problem. From the discourse shown, it appears that film produced by female director observe women from different point of view; exist outside of the mainstream from existing film creation. The director gave space for audience to discuss issues in violence on women would not be adequate to be observed only through normative perspective, legal perspective, the relation between parents and children, the relation between men and women, but also from the perspective of women as a subject. The director takes the audience into the realm that violence on women is against human rights, humanity issues, which must be seen from the heart and not from rational, legal and social justice only.
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