Khasanah, Aristya Ayu (2025) WOMEN’S STRUGGLES AS DEPICTED IN CERTAIN WOMEN (2016) MOVIE BY KELLY REICHARDT. Undergraduate thesis, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya.

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Abstract

This research examines the movie Certain Women (2016) using an existentialist feminism perspective, specifically the Simone de Beauvoir theoretical framework, to dive in how women’s struggles is portrayed. The movie criticizes gender inequality in a social intercourse, centralizing on how each female characters seeks individual freedom and opposes societal confinements. Four women in a small town stay alive by rejecting traditional gender roles and societal prejudices. The movie’s cinematography including angle and shot highlights resistance to personification. The dialog and character interactions emphasize the relationship between gender inequality and coercions within a woman as a being. This research utilizes objective approach to analyze intrinsic elements such as character, conflict, setting and cinematography. Besides, theory of existentialist feminism approach is used to analyze the extrinsic elements. Data was collected through movie observation and overview of relevant literature. The findings in this movie illustrate the gender inequality that occurs in society and depict women as changemaking agents to acquire their rights and advocate for equality, particularly in terms of everyday life. What becomes an essential point in Certain Women (2016) is that this movie depicts the freedom of rights to make decision in the pursuit of life.
Keyword: Freedom, Existentialist feminism, Certain Women.

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