Appearance’s changes of Rara’s character toward gender injustice and toxic femininity in Imperfect: Karir, Cinta & Timbangan

• Main Authors: Astuti, S. Y., Wardhani, Y. K.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Cornering; Femininity; Mise-en-scene; Motion pictures; Qualitative analysis; Violence
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/5.0241635

Women face problems both from themselves and surroundings in different ways and effects. Many people do not understand how to treat a woman who has been blessed with a different character and even a "beautiful" condition with her own portion. The depiction of women with their problems can be seen from Imperfect, romance drama film genre directed by Ernest Prakasa. Problems of verbal violence can be identified from a series of aspects of mise en scene, in the form of unfair treatment, cornering behavior, sad life processes, the emotions of the characters to changes in the appearance of characters who are part of a resistance. The main character named Rara changes her overall appearance just because she experiences unpleasant actions in her environment. Looking at the film in detail, it is clear that there has been a change in the appearance of Rara’s character as a form of resistance to the condition of being cornered and feeling wrong in the surrounding environment which is the object of writing study. Analyzing changes in the appearance of the main character of the film due to experiencing toxic femininity is the focus of this research. The main character is a subordinate figure who changes appearance to prove that the character is experiencing violence in the form of verbal or what is known as Toxic Femininity, which often occurs in the victim’s environment, done consciously or unknowingly by the perpetrator. The method used in this article is a qualitative descriptive research method with a mise en scene approach along with the theory of gender inequality and social transformation. The results of the research contained in this paper show that the main character is a helpless character who experiences verbal violence/ body shaming and the impact that occurs from the main character Rara.