THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMAN EQUALITY AS SEEN IN ELYSIUM MOVIE

Elysium movie by Neil Blomkamp is an action movie. This movie conveys the social issues such as race, ethnicity, social class, politics and gender. Related to gender issue, this movie represents a woman character named Delacourt who regulates in the government as a secretary of defense along with her status as wife and mother. It encourages the researcher to discuss the issue of woman equality. Thus, the objective of research is to know the portraits of woman equality undertaken by Delacourt. In conducting the research, the researcher elaborates liberal feminist theory and film theory. This research is categorized as qualitative research. The method of analysis data is objective-descriptive approach. The result of the discussion shows that the equality undertaken by Delacourt in Elysium movie tends to be equal but different. It is because beside she is able to be potential as men in the social, economic and political roles; she also still regards her nature as a woman. Furthermore, the woman equality as portrayed in Delacourt character is still influenced by a power. Its power comes from her middle-high social strata of society. Thus, liberal feminist thought is relative – it tends to the one who has power and high rated social status in society.