FILM DANGAL DALAM ANALISIS JACQUES DERRIDA

Abstract

This paper examines the Indian film Dangal which is taken from a true story about gender injustice experienced by female wrestling athletes. This fact encourages women's wrestling athletes' gender struggle efforts that result in gender equality. The courage of this film to raise the issue of gender struggle needs to be investigated using Jacques Derrida's analysis. By using descriptive-qualitative method and Derrida's philosophical analysis, this research finds several things. First, there is gender inequality experienced by Indian women in the field of wrestling because of the strength of the patriarchal system. Second, there is logocentrism, namely the logic of thinking that is centered on male authority which is detrimental to women. Third, there is a binary opposition that attaches women to evil while men to good. Third, gender struggle in the form of narrative battles to reveal differance, namely efforts to blur the meaning of women's traditional identities followed by deconstruction of the patriarchal system which finally achieves gender equality in the sport of wrestling.