the year of living dangerously

Director: peter weir

Actor: mel gibson,sigourney weaver,linda hunt,bembol roco

Data Published: Fri Dec 17 1982

Genres: Drama,Romance,War

Key Words: foreign correspondent,journalist,embassy,diplomat,1960s

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086617/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_Living_Dangerously_(film)

Description: The Year of Living Dangerously is a movie starring Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, and Linda Hunt. A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of...

Plot: Guy Hamilton, a neophyte foreign correspondent for an Australian network, arrives in Jakarta on assignment. He meets the close-knit members of the foreign correspondent community including journalists from the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand, diplomatic personnel, and a Chinese-Australian dwarf of high intelligence and moral seriousness, Billy Kwan. Hamilton is initially unsuccessful because his predecessor, tired of life in Indonesia, had departed without introducing Hamilton to his contacts. He receives limited sympathy from the journalist community, which competes for scraps of information from Sukarno's government, the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), and the conservative Muslim military. However, Billy takes a liking to Guy and arranges interviews for him with key political figures. Billy introduces Guy to Jill Bryant, a beautiful young assistant at the British embassy. Billy and Jill are close friends, and Guy subtly manipulates her encounters with him. After resisting Guy because she's returning to the United Kingdom, Jill falls in love with him. Discovering that the Communist Chinese are arming the PKI, Jill passes this information to Guy to save his life, but he wants to cover the Communist rebellion that will occur when the arms shipment reaches Jakarta. Shocked, Billy and Jill end their friendships with Guy, and he is left with the American journalist, Pete Curtis, and his own assistant and driver Kumar, who is secretly part of the PKI. Kumar, however, remains loyal to Guy, and tries to open his eyes to all that is going on. Billy, outraged by Sukarno's failure to meet the needs of most Indonesians, decides to hang a sign saying "Sukarno feed your people" from the Hotel Indonesia expressing his outrage, but is thrown from the window by security men, and dies in Guy's arms. His death is also witnessed by Jill. Still in search of "the big story", Guy visits the Presidential palace after the army generals have taken over and unleashed executions, after they learned of the Communist shipment. Struck down by an Army officer, Guy suffers a detached retina. Resting alone in Billy's bungalow, Hamilton recalls a passage from the Bhagavad Gita, "all is clouded by desire", which Billy told him. Kumar visits him and tells him about the failed coup attempt. Risking permanent damage to his eye, a heavily bandaged Guy implores Kumar to drive him to the airport, where he boards the last plane out of Jakarta and is reunited with Jill.