<![CDATA[The high number of cases of violence against women shows that patriarchy continues to operate in social life. Films, as cultural products, often serve as a space for representing these experiences, one example being the film Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, which highlights the experiences of women in vulnerable situations within a patriarchal culture. This study uses a qualitative approach with Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis method to examine how discourse on women's issues is represented. The analysis was conducted by integrating Simone de Beauvoir's existentialist feminism theory with the key concept of the Other and Fairclough's three-dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis framework, namely text, discursive practice, and social practice. The results show that in the text dimension, the film Marlina represents women as the Other through dialogue, scenes, and visuals that portray women in a subordinate position under male domination. At the same time, it shows resistance through awareness and freedom but has not yet fully achieved transcendence. In discursive practice, the film's discourse is shaped through a production process influenced by the director's views on gender equality, distributed through festivals, cinemas, and digital platforms, and interpreted relatively uniformly by audiences as support for women and rejection of patriarchal culture. At the level of social practice, this film becomes a medium for reflection on gender equality as well as a catalyst for public discussion on women's issues.]]>
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