La domination de la mère dans le film J'ai tué ma mère de Xavier Dolan

• Main Authors: Ismarini, Aditya Putri, Rusdiarti, Suma Riella
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: UGM Digital Press 2019-10-01
• Series: Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities
• Online Access: https://digitalpress.ugm.ac.id/article/274

<p class="Abstract">This article is about the representation of maternal domination and&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">the trial in the film&nbsp;</span>J’ai tué ma mère&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">&nbsp;of Xavier Dolan through narrative&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">and cinematographic film aspects. The analysis is supported by Michel&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Foucault’s concept of power to see the shape of dominance of the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">mother figure that occurs in the film. The power is the cornerstone of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">the training of domination that leads to repression against others,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">including within the family. The results of the analysis through&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">narrative and cinematographic aspects of the film shows that&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">dominance is formed due to the failure of the communication that&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">exists between the forces and causes the formation of resistance by&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">the dominated figures, the boy. The power and the domination of a&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">very large maternal figure in the figure of the boy life causes problems&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">and conflicts between them, thus creating a distance in the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">relationship between the mother and the child. The resistance of the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">dominant figure is intended to challenge the power of domination.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Dominance is also reinforced by the matriarchal cultural factors&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">within the culture of the community in Quebec, which is the setting for&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">the film.</span></p><p class="Abstract"><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>