A movie must have a purpose and a message according to the directors' vision and plans. There are many ways to convey the message to viewers around the world, explicitly or implicitly. Yet, every individual has their own perspective, ideology, opinion, and culture background, and this diffence results in different interpretation of a movie. Nevertheless, viewers can still analyze a movie with theories that has been studied for generations, for instance semiotics theory, feminist film theory,

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... choanalysis, etc. We will analyze how Robby Ertanto, as the director, the writer, and the producer of Ave Maryam, conveys messages through symbols, or as we call it the semiotics theory.