Trauma and Its Impact in Aury Wallington’s Spirit Untamed Movie

Abstract

The aim of this study entitled Trauma and Its Impact in Aury Walington's Spirit Unmed Movie is to described the issue of trauma and how to deal with trauma depicted in the characters in the movie. “Spirit Untamed” mostly shows the trauma experienced by characters who feel that they cannot forget the events that traumatized them. In addition, Spirit Untamed also contains ways to deal with traumatic itself. The object of this study is a movie entitled Spirit Untamed (2021) by Aury Wallington. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method which is presented in the form of an essay. In this study, the writer uses the theory of pyscoanalysis by Sigmund Freud (1926) regarding the id, ego and superego used in research based on the object movie as the main object that explains the psychology of characters in the movie. The data from the writer are a narrative that describes the situation in the characters, characterizations, settings and cinematography in the movie Spirit Untamed as a data source. The results of this study indicate that there are two types of trauma and how to deal with them which are depicted in the film, namely acute trauma in which the character experiences excessive fear of a tragedy and chronic trauma in which the character experiences excessive anxiety and makes him overprotective to those around him. Both of these traumas were overcome by self-introspection as a treatment and input from those closest to him.

Keyword: cinematography, movie, trauma, qualitative method.