Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yasser Arafat, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega and some 50 heads of state. The occasion was the eighth Summit Conference of the Nonaligned, a group now made up of 101 nations that was formed 25 years ago by leaders of the postwar independence movement: Nehru of India, Tito of Yugoslavia, Sukarno of Indonesia, Nkrumah of Ghana and Nasser of Egypt. Its members claim to be neutrals in the confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but its triennial meeting last week in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, was mainly the occasion for spirited America bashing...
After more than three centuries of Dutch colonial rule, Indonesia declared its independence in 1945. For the next 20 years, the nation was governed by its first President, the mercurial, left-leaning Sukarno. After a bloody, abortive Communist coup in 1965, Sukarno's power waned, and he was eased out of office two years later by Suharto, an army general. The conservative, strongly anti-Communist Suharto earned a reputation as "the father of development," resurrecting a faltering economy with the aid of the 1970s oil boom. The son of a farmer, Suharto helped increase agricultural production, finally enabling the nation...
...Living Dangerously is more than just a pictorial guidebook to Asia. Despite its Apocalypse-like teetering on the absurd. Weir's film packs an allure beyond its surface appeal--a seamy romance and political intrigue set to the backdrop of Sukarno's raging Indonesia of the 1960s...
...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...
...film, not explicitly but as the backdrop to the parade of violent--but apparently unconnected--images that flash before our eyes. Is it by government or men that human misery will be cured? As the film ends, it seems that even the most masterful of politicians, a man like Sukarno, is a failure. Weir has no particular ideological axe to grind, but seems to be implying--and one can never be sure about this irritatingly obtuse work--that governments are impotent in the face of the most elemental, human problems. It doesn't make for much Hollywood excitement...