INDEPENDENT MOVIES CAN BE THE NATION’S INSTRUMENT TO

CHANGE PEOPLE’S MIND

Miracle Ruthtio

ABSTRACT

This article reveals that independent movies can be the nation’s instrument to
change people’s mind. Based on Apparatus Theory, film has a powerful ability to fool
and to brainwash the audience. By means of this article, we aim to develop on
independent movies and put a nation’s problem, to identify what it is effect to
people’s mind. The result evidence a several mind alteration of people’s mind about
nation’s problem. Trough this article we know that independent movies can be useful
to improve people’s mind about their country, and also raises a sense of nationalism.

Keywords: Independent Movie, Change people’s mind

Introduction
Movies, also known as films, are a type
of visual communication which uses
moving pictures and sound to tell
stories or teach people something.
There are a number of different film
theories, one of them is Apparatus
Theory that explain The cinematic
institution is not just the cinema
industry, it is also the mental
machinery - another industry - which
spectators "accustomed to the cinema"
have internalized historically and which
has adapted them to the consumption of
films (Metz, 1975). According to that
theory, we can conclude that Film has
an ability to change people’s mind. It
also refers to “using movies as a
support for the individual’s process and
development, personal and
interpersonal matureness; it represents
a promising method of alternative
education and personal development
that simultancously enhances both the
attractiveness of the educational and
therapeutic and the depth of a
significant personal and relational
development.” (Dumitrache, 2013)
Movies have a very provocative
dimension and the message of the
movies can be entered on the entire
movie, on a sequence or a scene, or on
one of the characters from the movie
who is adored or despised by audience.
If the message of the movies is about
nation’s problem, it can make the
audience think about their country, it
also can effect the audience to think
how to solve that problems, or the
movies can give the solution for the
problem and make the audince want to
do that solution. The message can be
entered in the Independent Movies.
 Besides having several theories, director’s personal vision rather than
film also has variations, one of them is someone’s idea of box-office success
Independent movies. Independent (Levy, 2001). From that statement,
movies is a movies that made outside Independent movie did not prioritize
the traditional studio system, often with the box office succes, but prioritize the
unconventional financing, and it is vision or the message. The filmmaker
made because it expresses the will have a large opportunity to

expresses his idea about nation, delivered to the audience trough the
without any worry about box office Independent Movie.
ideal type.

Since Independent Movies is

often with unconventional financing
and outside the studio system, from that METHODOLOGY
we know that everyone can make an
For knowing how Independent Movies
Independent Movies, and can put a
can effect people’s mind about nation’s
nation’s problem without any
problem, various methods were carried
obstruction of box-office’s rules. The
out by researchers. The methods that
audience will get a message that strict
we use is survey methods, with
to them, and make them think about the
questionnaire and Likert Scale as the
nation’s problem deeper.
instrument. Were using five response
And also, it expresses the alternatives: strongly approve (1),
director’s personal vision about approve (2), undecided (3), disapprove
nation’s problems with a unique visual. (4), and strongly disapprove (5)
It will be appropriate to use
The respondent for the
Independent Film as a tools to approve
questionnaire are peoples who have
sense of natiolism.
watched “Sexy Killer”. “Sexy Killer” is
This research focusses more on an Independent Documentary Movie
how the nation message can be that release in 2019 produced by
WatchDoc. This Movie have a nation’s
problem that relate with people’s daily
life.
We are choose this methods In
order to know directly from the
audience is that Independent Movie can
change people’s mind about nation’s
problems?

RESULTS goverment

There is two question inside the can solve the

quesionnaire and five response problem by

alternatives: strongly approve (1), themselves?

approve (2), undecided (3), disapprove

(4), and strongly disapprove (5). The Five Response have a different

20 people respond the point.

quesionnaire and they are have watched strongly approve: 1 point

“Sexy Killer”.
approve: 2 point
Question SA A U D SD
undecided: 3 point
After
watching point
“Sexy
strongly disapprove: 5 point
Killer”, do
you think we From 20 respondent, 10 people
can just answered SD, 8 people answered D,
ignore about and 2 people answered U.
coal problem
We can use Likert Scale to count the
in Indonesia?
result.
After
watching SD = 10 x 5 = 50
“Sexy
D = 8 x 4 = 32
Killer”, do
you think the U=2x3=6
From this we can count the presentage
of Independent Movie effect to the
audience.
Total Score = 88
Maximum Score = 20 x 5 = 100
Minimum Score = 20 x 1 = 20
CONCLUSION
Independent Movie can support
the country for changing people’s mind
about nation’s problem. Independent
movie can be the instrument that
everyone can produce to send a
message about nationalism.

Index (%) = (88/100) x 100 = 88%

From the data, we know that

Independent Movie can effect 88%
people’s mind about nation’s problem.