This study aims to understand the cultur shock adaptation through a film entitled Thor (2011) this analysis used Collen Ward’s theory of culture shock. Culture shock is a feeling of not being able to see a different environment because it is not what they are used to. This study also discusses the phase and effect of culture shock.
This analysis uses qualitative research which is a study to investigate and understand the meanings assumed by individuals or group social or human problems. Type of research is not an approach that involves statistical and mathematical data related to numbers but would focus on descriptions and explanations in the form of words, sentence, and dialogue. In this case, the type of descriptive-qualitative research would be used to analyze to Thor as the main character in the film Thor (2011).
This study find phase of culture shock by Thor as the main character by Thor (2011) film. Based on the analysis in this study, there are four phases experienced by Thor, they are Honeymoon phase, Crisis phase, Recovery phase, Adjustment phase. Then, this study found that there are two categories of effect into culture shock process, they are positive effect and negative effect. The positive effect observed in the film are Amazement, Excitement And the negative effect are Confusion

Keywords : Culture shock, Collen wards, Thor (2011), Effect of Culture shock