THE LOWER CLASS RESISTENCE IN CAPITALIST SOCIETY OPRESSION IN THE PURGE (2013) FILM BY JAMES DE MONACO

Abstract

Literature as one of the media to express human’s feeling comes in many forms lately. One of the forms of literature is movie. By watching movies, people as audience can feel and “experience” all the things that happens to the characters. This research is discussing about a lower-class resistance from the upper-class (the capitalist) oppression in a society. It aims to find out the lower-class struggle to fight against the upper-class’ oppression. The research method is qualitative descriptive by describing the actions from the scenes of the movie that show how both classes are represented on it. The data are taken from the scenes and the dialogues on the movies. The results showed that there are some representations of each class. White people represent the upper-class, meanwhile the black people represent the lower-class. In conclusion, the lower-class people fought for their right for having a better life. On the other hand, the upper-class people felt that they were more superior than the black people that made the whites did some unfair treatment to the blacks.