REPRESENTATION OF SINGLE FATHER IN THE MOVIE FATHERHOOD

Film is one of the media that is still often used by many
people to convey a message and have an
impact on a wide audience who enjoy it. One of them is the depiction of a person in a film that gives a message of its impression to the audience. Since the Covid-19 pandemic that entered Indonesia in March 2021, many people have died due to exposure to the virus. Not infrequently, some people have
also lost their parents during this pandemic, such as losing
their mothers and leaving fathers with their children. The
phenomenon of single fathers and their stories of defending
their families and raising their children eventually became
the main attraction for the audience. At the same time, a film
called Fatherhood was released which tells the story of a
single father and his daughter. The author conducted this
research because it was deemed to describe how a
single father faces the problems that surround him. The purpose of this study was to find out the message of the single father
representation conveyed in the media of this film. The
method used is Roland Barthes semiotics. Semiotics Roland
Barthes will discuss from 3 points of view, namely denotation,
connotation, and also myth. In this study, the theory used is
about single parent problems, Roland Barthes semiotics, and also films. The findings in this study are that every single father will face severalproblems such as work, child care, economy, and also social pressure.