REDEFINING INDEPENDENT WOMAN: FEMINIST INSIGHTS INTO DAMSEL

Abstract

This study takes the film Damsel (2024) as an object of research through the perspectiveof existential feminism. Analyze Elodie character how she fight to stay alive, also another womanpower character as in the study of existentialist feminism. This study uses qualitative descriptiveanalysis research method with approach of Simone de Beauvoir's Feminist Existentialism. Collectdata method will be form of character's action scene, dialogue, and context. This analysis shares theawareness of women's freedom reach by fight not given and redefining woman independency basedon Damsel (2024). This study concludes that in the film highlighting women's efforts to remain viable.Being a damsel in distress does not mean having to depend on others and be miserable, this filmteaches to stand alone in survival.