The Year of Living Dangerously (film)
The Year of Living Dangerously is a 1982 Australian romantic war drama film directed by Peter Weir and cowritten by Weir and David Williamson adapted from Christopher Kochs 1978 novel of the same name. The story is about a love affair set in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno. It follows a group of foreign correspondents in Jakarta on the eve of an attempted coup by theSeptember Movement in 1965.
Guy Hamilton Mel Gibson, a neophyte foreign correspondent for an Australian network, arrives in Jakarta on assignment. He meets the closeknit members of the foreign correspondent community including journalists from the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand, diplomatic personnel, and a ChineseAustralian dwarf of high intelligence and moral seriousness, Billy Kwan Linda Hunt. 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 Sukarnos Mike Emperio government, the Communist Party of Indonesia PKI, and the conservative Muslim military. However, Kwan takes a liking to Hamilton and arranges interviews for him with key political figures.Kwan introduces Hamilton to Jill Bryant Sigourney Weaver, a beautiful young assistant at the British embassy. Kwan and Bryant are close friends, and he subtly manipulates her encounters with Hamilton. After resisting Hamilton because shes returning to the United Kingdom, Bryant falls in love with him. Discovering that the Communist Chinese are arming the PKI, Bryant passes this information to Hamilton to save his life, but he wants to cover the Communist rebellion that will occur when the arms shipment reaches Jakarta. Shocked, Kwan and Bryant withdraw their friendship from Hamilton, and he is left with the American journalist Pete Curtis Michael Murphy, and his own assistant and driver Kumar Bembol Roco, who is secretly PKI. Kumar, however, remains loyal to Hamilton and tries to open his eyes to all that is going on. ........
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