Sidestream Movie as Media in Generating High Order of Thinking Skills

Abstract

In the industry of Indonesian movies, the spotlight is mainly on mainstream movies, leaving sidestream movies underlit. Sidestream movies are less popular, yet they provide various themes and creativity more than the mainstream. Sidestream movies also often brought back prior themes from the mainstreams, meaning that they are both parallel. The less popularity of the sidestream movies is mainly affected by unbalanced movies' distribution line in Indonesia, which benefits only the mainstreams. Albeit deprived on the distribution, sidestream movies correspond the mainstream, in this era of industry 4.0, through their themes and discourses. This study aims to investigate two sidestream movies entitled Jumprit Singit and Nunggu Teka as the primary data. The result shows that the discourses of the two movies still rely on the conformity of norms and manner of Indonesian people. This idea is built through the movies' narrative discourses, showing a smaller dimension if they are compared with mainstream movies. Sidestream movies with drama genre show more conservatism and positivism whereas movies with comedy genre deliver more satire. Eventually, the relation between the discourses of mainstream and sidestream films are not always constructed in an oppositional relation as shown by this study.