Yulianeta, Rosmah Tami
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. © 2020. All Rights Reserved.
Department of Indonesian Language and Literature Education, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudhi No. 229, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia; Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Adab and Humaniora, UIN Alauddin Makassar, Jl. H.M. Hasim Limpo No. 36, Samata Gowa, Indonesia
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