Moralitas Daya Juang Tokoh Utama dan Peran Media Sosial Dalam Film Searching Karya Aneesh Chaganty

Abstract

: This study aims to show moral values, especially the Fighting Power found in the film Searching, and describe the role of social media in people's lives in the millennial era. This study is a type of qualitative research. Data in the form of film is considered as a text, ignoring cinematic elements, which are then analyzed using the Structuralism approach. The results showed that the fighting power in this film is displayed through the characters. On the other hand, the social media portrayed in this film greatly affects the lives of almost all the characters in this film: From searching for information about illnesses, registering piano competitions, searching for recipes, to finding missing people even though depicted in this film. The meaning of the title of this film, namely Searching, refers to the act of "searching" for information desired via the internet, also searching in the real world, for the events of the main character who lost his daughter.

Keywords: Searching, fighting morality, social media.