Narrative of the Movie “Father’s Home” based on Greimas’ Actantial Discourse Regime

In this study, the movie “Father’s Home” (2010) directed by Kianoosh Ayari will be criticized based on Greimas’ actantial discourse. The main goal of this article is finding Greimas’ intended narrative structures so as to define the extension of signification process in the movie. In this survey, the adopted methodology is discourse analysis through semiotic approach. A movie has a linear narrative sequence and the main element of the narrative is the story of secret murder of a family’s young daughter by her father which represents an image of family violence against Iranian women. The actantial discourse regime of the movie revolves around actions of women in an Iranian family in few generations from 1922 to 1992. These women initiate a disciplined effort in their chains of promise, enforcement and detachment so as to counter the patriarchal culture of the community and achieve their value object as modern human beings. The value object is relative independence and confirmation of female identify and agents of catalysis and stasis in their own turn facilitate or challenge the protagonists’ action. Following the critical analysis of the movie, it was concluded that signification process based on Greimas’ actantial discourse has been well demonstrated in the movie “Father’s Home”. Based on this pattern, confirmation of female identity as a value object was demonstrated in five sequences with different activists, imposers and recipients of actions.