Male Gaze the Role of Women in the Wedding Agreement Film: Case Study of Feminism Paradigm

Abstract

Women and objectification are two things that cannot be separated. The use of women's bodies in films can be a form of unilateral commodification of the aesthetics of the female body and the objectification of women as a whole, especially in films that still keep the 'male gaze' phenomenon. The use of 'Male Gaze' etiquette in the film, if viewed from the feminism paradigm, is certainly not appropriate. Film etiquette from a male perspective will give birth to a visual paradigm governed by voyeurism and the objectification of one-sided patriarchal desires. The literacy study method with a feminist approach will be used to examine the recordings of women's footprints as passive objects related to the acceptance of male audiences' sexual satisfaction in the film from Indonesia, namely ' Agreement'. The film Wedding Agreement is one of the series with the theme of matchmaking, where the main character, the girl, must struggle to serve her husband while keeping the household from the temptation of infidelity. The strong side of girls' struggle amid social burdens is a real phenomenon in many cases of marriage in Indonesia which is also reflected in the film Wedding Agreement. Through literacy studies, the researcher tried to uncover the condition of the low level of education regarding the issue of feminism and the high level of patriarchal culture as two fatal combinations in Indonesian society. The end result is reaching a solution to the problem.