Open AccessSOCIAL SATIRE ON HIGHER EDUCATION: A COMPARATIVE STRUCTURAL SEMIOTIC STUDY OF THE MOVIES ALANGKAH LUCUNYA (NEGERI INI) AND PARASITE
Author(s) -
Yulianeta Yulianeta,
Rosmah Tami
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indonesian journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.283
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 2502-6747
pISSN - 2301-9468
DOI - 10.17509/ijal.v11i1.34613
Subject(s) - semiotics , narrative , meaning (existential) , indonesian , criticism , class (philosophy) , sociology , social class , media studies , psychology , literature , linguistics , art , political science , epistemology , philosophy , law , psychotherapist
It is commonly believed that obtaining a higher education is one way to elevate people's social class. Two movies, the Indonesian film Alangkah Lucunya (Negeri Ini) ALNI (2010) and the Korean Parasite (PR) (2019), challenge this common belief. The two movies criticize higher education by conveying the message in satire. To unveil the meaning of the two movies' social satires, this study used Roland Barthes's structural semiotic analysis on five primary codes to explore the codes that regulate the structure of the narrative of the text (film) to find similarities and differences of their focus of criticism regarding higher education. The use of satiric form to contrast and juxtapose the rich and the poor, and the educated and uneducated shows that both Alangkah Lucunya (Negeri Ini) and Parasite uncover the influence of neoliberalism in the formal educational system that gives an impact to both lower and higher class, either in developed countries or developing countries. The satire content is intended to attract attention and to inspire people to move to change the situation.