the year of living dangerously

The story starts off with a young journalist named Hamilton, who’s sent on his first story in Jakarta Indonesia. He meets Billy Kwan who soon becomes his photographer and close friend. Billy actually tends to be more of a mentor to Hamilton. This you can tell in the end of the movie after Billy dies and Hamilton wanders aimlessly for stories and becomes too overwhelmed by Jakarta’s crisis to continue. Hamilton is faced with a couple of problems here, one being exposed to such poverty and being too naïve to acknowledge it, and two actually living there in the midst of it. Can he really stay there alone and cope with the scarce food and starvation, watching the government in their palaces living large and ignoring the truth. He gets pushed around and hurt while getting his stories, enough to change his mind about being stationed there. Jill, a fling he had, tries to save his life by warning him of a weapons shipment to the PKI, but Hamilton chooses to write a story on it, not...