Word: kwan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even with these exclusively pre-freshmen events, John I. Kwan, from South Korea and Phillips Exeter Academy, felt the only flaw in the otherwise informative program was that he wasn't able to meet enough of his future classmates. "I made a conscious effort to try to get to know the other people here, but I was only able to meet about...
...going is tough for Western journalists in Jakarta. Doors are shut to all but the craftiest, and Sukarno has whipped up anti-West feeling to a fever-pitch among the masses. But Hamilton catches the eye of the most fascinating character of the movie. Billy Kwan, a diminutive Eurasian photographer who seems to be the most well-connected person in town. Kwan, played by a woman, Linda Hunt, takes a liking to Hamilton and gets him a prized interview with the leader of the Indonesian communists who are about to launch their doomed coup of 1965. An unlikely team...
...Embassy after a whirlwind, cardboard romance. As the hottest ticket in Jakarta's diplomatic community. Sigourney Weaver again makes heads turn But like the other subplots that spring up every five minutes, their relationship is almost irrelevant to the film's most important point the struggle by Hamilton and Kwan to work out for themselves how to deal with the frighteningly immense human problems they must confront every...
...Third World arrogance. Among the Caucasians are Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson), one of the Australian correspondents, and Jill Bryant (Sigourney Weaver), a glamorous mystery woman in the employ of the British embassy. Helping them fall in love, and more than a little in love with them both, is Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt), a dwarfish man who works as a photographer and functions as an all-knowing tipster. Nothing is simple here on the outskirts of Graham Greeneland, where conscientious Westerners sink waist-deep in the Big Muddy of moral and political ambiguity...
...among the smartest-looking pictures in recent cinema. But in his attempt to blend his preoccupations with the plot of C. J. Koch's 1978 novel, Weir has perhaps packed too much imagery and information into his movie. The sound track is wallpapered with dialogue and Billy Kwan's pensive narration. The plot becomes landlocked in true-life implausibilities; the characters rarely get a hold on the moviegoer's heart or lapels...