Christoph Walts and John C. Reilly. All the actors have done a tremendous job in showcasing. The ending and the whole hamster story in the movie was hilariously
excellent. Overall, Carnage is an excellent dark comedy which requires multiple viewing to understand the characteristics and greatness in the performances of the
actors. The researcher chooses this movie because it has won five awards, namely
Polish Film Award 2013, CEC Award 2012, Cesar Award 2012, BSFC Award 2011 Venice Film Festival 2011 and nominated in some film festivals.
Furthermore, this movie tells about four people who learn about the importance meaning of politeness that is related to the topic of this research. Therefore, the
researcher thinks that there are many utterances in the dialogue of this movie which contains politeness strategies.
Figure 1: Carnage Movie Poster
B. Previous Studies
The researcher does not deny that this research is not the first one to discuss politeness, especially the phenomenon of positive politeness strategies. In
fact, there have been many previous researches on this topic. A number of researches were done under pragmatics studies with politeness strategies as the
main issue to be discussed. However, this research is different because it has its own issues, theory and methodology.
The first research is “Politeness Strategies Used by The Main Character A
Walk to Remember Movie.
” by a student of Malang State Islamic University named Siti Masluha 2011. The researcher of this study analyzed the main
character ’s politeness in the movie. In analyzing the data, the researcher used
Brown and Levinson 1987 politeness theory. Those are bald on-record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off-record strategies. This study aims to
analyze the use of politeness strategies in A Walk to Remember movie, specifically to find out the types of politeness strategies and the intentions for using these
strategies by Jamie as the main character when she expressed her faith and affection to Landon.
Another study deals with politeness strategies is “An Analysis of Positive
Politeness Strategy in the Film Entitled In Good Company ” by a student of
Sebelas Maret State University named Ani Septyaningsih 2007. It aims to find out the kinds of the positive politeness strategies employed by the characters and
the factors influencing the characters to employ those strategies in relation to Brown and Levinson’s 1987 politeness strategy. The data were taken from all of
