The Water Diviner (2014) which directed by Rusell Crowe is the unit analysis of this research. Due to the fact that this film has the non-linear pattern and multi plot which make the viewers difficult to follow its plot, so this research is aimed to find the main narrative structure in this film using the structural narratology theory by A.J. Greimas to make the viewers easily to understand the plot. To find the main narrative structure, this research classifies the function of each character into six actants, sender, receiver, subject, object, helper, and opponent and functional model can determine a plot through several phases, such as the beginning situation, transformation, and the ending situation in this film. This research uses the qualitative method and the descriptive analysis as the technique to analyzed the data with the structural narratology theory proposed by A.J. Greimas that prioritizes an action, an act which occurs by the desire of the central figure that represent the main events in the plot. After analyzing the data, the research finds 17 actantial and functional structure in this film. The result of the correlation between the actantial and functional structure discovers the main narrative structure which influences the emergence of the sequence of events in The Water Diviner film. The main narrative structure is Joshua Connor (subject) has a desire to find his sons (object) who presume dead in the Battle of Gallipoli

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