Few days ago, I watched a romantic drama movie namely "The Last Song" directed by Julie Anne Robinson, starring by Miley Cyrus as Ronnie Miller, Greg Kinnear as Steve Miller, Bobbie Coleman as Jonah Miller, Liam Hemsworth as Will Blakelee and Kelly Preston as Kim (Ronnie and Jonah's mother, and also Steve ex-wife). The main story was centrally focused on Ronnie Miller's life.
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From the movie, it portrays Miley Cyrus as Ronnie (the character) and "The Last Song" is a discourse about Ronnie's life. According to Antony.H Harisson in his book 'Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture'- "Discourse not only provides the medium for thought and communication but can also thus be viewed as the basis for action in the social world." (page 3).
He added, " ...ideology is inseparable from the signs in which it is represented, and these signs always operate within concrete forms of social intercourse." (page 3). In the beginning of the movie, Ronnie illustrates a women who has lack of feminism but at the end she managed to change her character and became more womanly. This is because feminism is her second nature.Thus, the ideology of the film is that feminism cannot be separated from every woman's character.
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If it is against the ideology, thus we called it as counter ideology. As what Antony stated in his book ' Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture', " Works of art nonetheless sometimes also powerfully challenge those dominant ideological forms and present themselves as alternatives to them." (page 2). This is what happened to Ronnie. She had found other alternatives to express herself which is by joining the Gothic community contrary to what her parents wish for. This is where she slowly loses her femininity but then recovered it back after she met the person she love.
Reference:
Harrison, Antony.H. (1998).Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture:
Discourse and Ideology. Retrieved from:
http://books.google.com/books?id=PMfgoIqJL0AC&pg=PA1&dq=ideology,discourse+and+politics&hl=en&ei=WotqTOKOFMnMcOyivIAC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
