ANXIETY IN DAVID FINCHER'S THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008): A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH

• Main Author: FATHONI, IIN RAKA (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2011.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/15507/1/COVER.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/15507/2/CHAPTER_I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/15507/7/CHAPTER_II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/15507/8/CHAPTER_III.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/15507/9/CHAPTER_IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/15507/11/CHAPTER_V.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/15507/14/BIBLIOGRAPHY.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/15507/15/SYNOPSIS.pdf
• Keywords: PN Literature (General)

The problem of the study is to reveal how is major character reflects his anxiety. The objective of the study is to analyze the film based on its structural analysis and based on the psychoanalytic analysis. This research is qualitative research. Type of data of the study is text and image taken from two data sources: primary and secondary. The primary data source is the The Curious Case of Benjamin Button movie directed by David Fincher released in 2008. While the secondary data sources are other materials taken from books, journals, and internet related to the study. Both data are collected through library research and analyzed by descriptive analysis. The study comes to the following conclusions. First, based on the structural analysis of each elements, it shows that the character and characterization, casting, plot, setting, point of view, theme, mise en scene, cinematography, sound, and editing are related to each other and form unity. Second, based on the psychoanalytic analysis, the writer concludes that the problems of the major character cause the conflict of his mental condition. It happens when there is contradiction between Id, Ego, and Superego and it brings him into anxiety.