The Year of Living Dangerously: 6 Myths About Disability Insurance

By N. Mark Castro

Banned from 1982 to 1999, The Year of Living Dangerously is a film about Indonesia that starred a young Australian named Mel Gibson, a towering Sigourney Weaver, and Linda Hunt (regularly appears on the hit TV show NCIS: Los Angeles) performing a male-role and winning an Oscar for it. The film revolved around Sukarno’s supposed life of excess and failure to meet the “needs” of his people, leading to the coup that eventually toppled him.

Sukarno used the Italian line “vivere pericolosamente, meaning “living dangerously”, for the title of his Indonesian Independence Day speech of 1964.

If we are to revisit the essence of the film, has the government done enough to meet the “needs” of the people? Do you have to wait for the government to meet your “needs”?