POLITICS OF TERROR PORTRAYED IN SNOWPIERCER MOVIE

Snowpiercer movie by Bong Joon-ho is a science fiction movie. The movie consists of social-political issue. Related to the social-political issue, this movie shows some phenomena about social problem in social life. Such as separation of class, injustice, abuse of power and so forth. Thus, the researcher discusses the problem about abuse of power that has done by the upper class. The abuse of power is an effort to maintain the upper class’s power. In this movie, the form of abuse of power consists of some terrors. The researcher uses qualitative methods, objective approach, and Marxist theory to analyze this research. Relating to the problem statements, the function of the theory is to identify how the upper class spreads their terror as form of abuse of power in Snowpiercer movie and how the effects of the terror that occurs in lower class. Based on the analysis of this research, the researcher draws a conclusion the form of the terror. They are verbal and practice forms. The verbal forms include insinuation to create otherness and threat statement. While for the practice forms include some practices as physical violence. The effects of terror for the lower class are physical and psychological forms. The physical is violence physical. While, for the psychological effects are powerless feeling and damaging traumatic effects