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Show lh Salt Like TrihtuiP Inliv, f'tbruurv I H, i; I'WJ Several compelling stories in Year of Living Dangerously 4 By Trrry Or mo Tribune Staff Writer Australian director Peter Weir has a penchant for taking his audiences to remote corners of the world where events that made history took place In "Gallipoli'' he took us to the Dardanelles in Turkey where, in 1915, British officers made caption todder of their Australian allies bv tending Aussie soldiers unprotected into the line of f.re of Turkish Gatling guns In his new movie, "I he Year ot Living Dangerously," Weir takes us to Indonesia in 1965 w President Sukarno s is repressive reg-mabout to be toppled The tone of the film is not unlike another about political corruption and overthrow s Missing," released earlier this year, which told of a young American who turns up missing during the coup in Chile which ousted Allende Both films convey the nightmarish situation ol being in a foriegn land amid chaos, when soldiers occupy the streets with rifles casually resting on their shoulders, when shots break the stillness of the Costa-Gavra- night. In "The Year of Living Danger Weir interweaves several compelling stories to make a film with tremendous emotional and dramatic impact Australian Journalist ously," Mel Gibson, who starred in "Gal' lipoli and Road Warrior," plays Guy Hamilton, an Australian journalist whose fust overseas assignment is to cover the building tension between communists and other factions tn Indonesia He lands in Jakarta only to discover that his predecessor has left the country early, leaving him with no contacts and on the increasingly danger- sum ous situation Things improve greatly for Ham llton when he meets Billy Kwan played by New York actress Linda Hunt, an Indonesian photographer who has political leanings whic h are hard to define at first, and who has connections with people in high places Bill v gets Hamilton an inter view with the Communist lartv leader in Indonesia he is beating all the other foreign journalists at staying abreast of the festering situation And Billy is pmvidiig supei b film to accompany his stories Weirs film also tells a fierv Sigournev Weavir ("Alien." Evewitness") plays Jill brvant. a Brite-- attac he who is priw a c onfi denwal information about impend mg civil wai in Indonesia , V - v-- s. ' v--- ft & i f' K V , IW - k 7 love-stor- r T- - I Explores Moral (Juestiens "The Year of Living Dangerous ly" not only tells of a violent and troubling time with verac it v, but it explores moral questions of what was happening as well Weir juxtaposes scenes of w estern journalists, as they eat and dunk, with scenes of the poverty of Jakarta The journalists British, American and Australian come to svm bolize the ugly American" as they entertain themselves with the young, poor women, forced into prostitution to feed their They are loud, boisterous and disrespectful of the customs of the Indonesian people In their search for a sensational story, they are blind to the poverty and starvation around ii? ,. ' A I 'Z' , si K'4 V rf Sc V W& ?W A is 4mi 2i s Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver meet amid turmoil of 15 Indonesia in Tito Year uf Liv i.ug Dangerously. climax Weir's direction is supei b i us into a foreign land, a land of the very rich and the very poor, a land where something is about to burst Like Hamilton, we are eon fused at first, unsure of what is going on Weir creates a hostile envi ronment and we can feel it Major Attributes The majer attributes of thi. film are the performances Weaver and Gibson both create believable characters who have a sexual hemistrv undeniable between them that The actors also probe (ho d. lemma of separating their personal lives from their professional lives Michael Murphy (' Manhattan," "An Unmarried Woman ") plays an - them "The Year of Living Dangerously" is a strong film in every respect The screenplay by Weir, C J Koch and David Williamson, from Koch's novel, is well conceived and constructed Its plot strands weave in and out and build to a powerful , American )ourr,a!i.t whose flippin cv toward the plight of the Indone lan people is i, illy unsettling While the roles plavcd by Weaver and Gibson an- getting the mod .it tent ion in the film s publieitv cam- paign, there is .mother excellent perlormanee here - Linda Hunt's portrayal of the male eharac ter, Bil ly Kwan Billy is the films catalyst He is the one who brings Hamilton and Brviint together, seeing the two foreigners as potent nl pawns to fa eiiitalo political change in his i nun-trHunt c routes a c harac ler who is at Gives uliar, and at the next moment ver y kable He is a haracler who works in m .tenons wavs and who leads tnc- - drama to it ; pc-- c 1 power fill c c onehiSion raaEHnBEBSSnXHSBgHXBJHKfiEBKBM A comedy for the incurably romantic. 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