- This study entitled Women's Faces Against
Patriarchal Domination, a further study of the film
Marlina The Murderer in Four Acts using Algirdar
Greimas' narrative semiotics theory. The research will
find out the actant model and functional model to see
the plots, characters and hidden aim inside the text. The
research also sees Richard Krevolin's Scene-o-gram
model to sharpen the plot and characters in the film.
The results of the study show that the six actants in the
Greimas model are mentioned as subject, object, sender
and recipient showed the meaning of the struggle
against patriarchal domination that occurs throughout
the story with violence and emotion as the main traitors
and female characters who are the helpers of the main
characters in achieving their desires. Meanwhile, a
conflict-filled storyline can be read in a functional
scheme that tells the beginning, the transformation that
contains conflict until the final situation as the end of
the story in the film. From the semiotic square, it can be
found that the inner structure which is the main theme
in this film is about masculine versus feminine as a
simple movement of feminism to fight the gap among
gender and ethical versus indelicate as a reflection of
eastern Indonesian culture
Keywords : narrative semiotics, Greimas, scene-o-gram, patriarchy, feminism