UCLA college student Jonathan Moore (Anthony Edwards) is playing a game called "Gotcha" (popular on mid-1980s college campuses as "Assassin" or "Tag"), wherein the players are all assigned a mock "hit" on another player by use of a harmless paintball gun. Moore and his apartment roommate Manolo go on a vacation to Paris, France. After touring some of Paris, in a cafe Moore meets Sasha Banicek (Linda Fiorentino), a Czechoslovakian girl. Eventually, Jonathan has intercourse with Sasha, losing his virginity.
Jonathan decides to leave Manolo (who is heading to Spain) and go with Sasha to West Berlin to spend more time with her. Jonathan believes that he is in love with Sasha. There, Jonathan and Sasha continue to have sex and even go to an Oktoberfest beer gathering. One night, Sasha tells Jonathan that she has to go to East Berlin to pick up a package. One night after arriving in East Berlin, Sasha leaves their hotel room and walks to dark street corner. There, Sasha meets a German man who tells her the location of the pickup of her package. Meanwhile, Sasha was being monitored by a Soviet agent, who was sitting in a car at a distance. During the day, Sasha tells Jonathan that if she gives him a certain message, it means that he has to leave East Berlin immediately. At a cafe, Sasha gives Jonathan a package and says that a strudel is inside. A little later, Sasha tells Jonathan to meet her at the butcher shop near their hotel. All of a sudden, a Soviet agent begins to chase after Sasha. Sasha decides to use Jonathan (who is holding her package) to unknowingly get the package over to West Berlin. Meanwhile, Sasha is taken by the Soviet agent and East German secret police.
Jonathan goes to Checkpoint Charlie to cross the heavily fortified border into West Berlin. At the East German customs search, Jonathan is stripped of his clothes and given a cavity search. Meanwhile, Sasha is stripped and searched for possible espionage evidence. Vlad arrives at the border crossing to search for Jonathan, however Jonathan passes the border safely before he can be captured. Once in West Berlin, Jonathan feels liberated by the Westernized society. In the hotel, Jonathan receives a message from Sasha to meet him at a specified location. Jonathan finds out that his hotel room was broken into and robbed of his traveler's checks. Soviet agents eventually find Jonathan in West Berlin and chase him throughout a public park. Jonathan jumps into a water canal and manages to escape from the Soviets and stumbles upon a German rock group headed for Hamburg, who offer him a ride to the airport.
The rock group successfully get Jonathan to the airport (using full-face makeup to sneak him past a checkpoint) and Jonathan finally arrives in Los Angeles Tom Bradley International Airport and to his apartment. Soon, Vlad and a band of Soviet agents arrive too in Los Angeles. Once home, Jonathan stumbles upon a film canister, which was planted by Sasha. Jonathan visits his parents and tells them what happened in Germany but they cannot believe a word of it and think Jonathan is on drugs. Jonathan decides to call the FBI then the Central Intelligence Agency for help. Jonathan returns to find his apartment broken into and looted.
The CIA officer tells Jonathan to give them the photo film canister. At the Los Angeles headquarters of the CIA, Jonathan spots Sasha who looks like she was working there. Jonathan eventually meets up with Sasha. Sasha admits that she is Cheryl Brewster, a CIA agent, originally from Pittsburgh. Out of nowhere, Vlad and his gang begin to chase Jonathan and Cheryl on the UCLA campus. Jonathan eliminates all the Soviets with a tranquilizer gun which he gets from the campus veterinary sciences building. The Soviets are arrested, the CIA agents thank Jonathan for his (indirect) help in obtaining the film, and Sasha tells him she wants to continue their relationship.
After they part, Jonathan talks to a pretty student who rebuffs him coldly. As she walks away, he aims the tranquilizer pistol and shoots her in the rear.
1931年的柏林，作家法比安的一生。
3 什麼都沒有 只是在敘述一個個故事 你說他在寫悲劇嗎 也不是 但放到當時的時代 就是一出出悲劇 如「紅樓夢」
法比安纯粹又迷茫，是疯狂时代里我们每一个人。镜头太棒，三个小时一点都不觉得冗长。片后连线汤姆希林，他说拍摄时期的他处于迷茫状态，恰好和片中男主状态有重合，于是能更好演绎。
4/5，在想如果将法比安的故事从魏玛共和国大厦将倾的1931年换到任意一个时代，那这个故事其实依旧成立，故事其实并没有很出彩，影片在开头在摄影和剪辑上花了很多功夫去呈现那种纸迷金醉，这部分随着情节的深入被丢掉了，在风格上其实没有很统一，我觉得片子迷人的地方在于纳粹渐起的处处闲笔，将人物与大时代相连，嗯，让我想起了紫蝴蝶里的李冰冰那条线
法比安淹死了，淹死在社会的洪流，迷惑颠倒，颠倒迷惑
最后一段很精彩，应该是秘书长，对于灭绝犹太人政策本事并未直接挑战，他没有直接庇护犹太人，但是，他也知道作为人性的根本，杀人，而且是屠杀，一定会深深扭曲每个人的人性。虽然屠杀者貌似强者，完全碾压众人的生命，但是，他自己之后的生活，精神上的煎熬，将永无止境。
虚无代替了存在，惧怕现在和未来
“我会为你破例，我会爱上你，但我对你的感觉与你无关。好了，现在我饿了。”我们要珍惜能和爱人散步亲吻的机会，毕竟在伟大的时代洪流中，这些矜贵的瞬间都是我们与无数的阴差阳错擦肩而过才得到的片刻。
犹太财团的历史造假片，万湖会议记录这是商议将德国人聚集区的犹太人转移到东部做工而避免在核心区搞破坏。
法比安纯粹又迷茫，是疯狂时代里我们每一个人。镜头太棒，三个小时一点都不觉得冗长。片后连线汤姆希林，他说拍摄时期的他处于迷茫状态，恰好和片中男主状态有重合，于是能更好演绎。
前一小时过于吸引我，以至于忽略后半部分的冗长与平庸。
#IKSV# 前半段还比较新奇，叙述的方式比较现代比较自由，以现代的方式抹去历史的灰尘，也暗示人物情感的“即时性”。视觉上呈现出60年代地下电影的复古录像带质感，现代的感觉也体现在剪辑、摄影、音乐和服装等多个方面。而后半段则有些疲软了，回到了比较传统的文学改编电影的方式上。
由于之前看了太多魏玛共和国历史的记录，观影时丝毫没有产生不解，真的了解时代之后极易理解共情。现代主义+美国主义+一点点意识流合成的恰恰是生活现实。“这个时代就是一道疤，右边是褐色的，左边是红色的，中间一带混乱不堪。”
虽然爱情，politics，理想，意义这几个词排列组合起来总是能够轻易实现佳作，但手持镜头，画外音，蒙太奇的交错还是让这部电影有别于其他的叙事方式。有别于叙事的完整性，恰恰是通过琐碎拼凑形成了鲜明的混乱，无序，压抑，凌乱的诗意和疯狂。
它是电影，它更是部魏玛时代的人类社会学的研究作品。180分钟每一帧都透着现实肉溅的血腥味儿，每一句台词都需深思片刻才能悟出答案，很深刻更意犹未尽（如“生活是我第二份工作）…临近片尾时莫名地感到忧虑和感伤，不知道为谁？还是为了什么？可能芸芸万物都相似吧…影片中有两处细节久久很难逃避，1、三处出现留声机播放音乐，瞬间把人带到另一个时空，或遐想或遮掩什么（音效处理得极为恰当好处）；2、则是妓女们抱起自杀好友的头用白手帕裹住其脖子，顿时有点想哭的感觉（尊重死者的尊严竟然出自妓女之手）…也许此片没有讲什么深刻道理，但它揭示的各色人等的日常是真实的，深刻的！
如果忽略此次会议的议题，这就是一场非常标准的圆桌政治博弈，各派系间就自身利益最大化展开争论、说服、协商、妥协；然而即便派系观点和利益存在冲突，但他们在犹太人种族灭绝的问题上却是空前一致，令人不寒而栗。
现代主义小说的图像呈现，碎片式剪辑，散乱无中心的叙事，癫狂的人物，糜烂而荒诞的生活。不该活的人依旧活着，本应活着的人悲惨死去，这是对魏玛末世的讽刺与悼念，讽刺德国即将到来的末日，悼念那时尚存理想的青年。
激赞，不落窠臼的剧本, “迫真”对镜头语言, 将弥漫着的愁塑造得如此深度实为难得。
你爱我越来越少 我爱你越来越多 我们真互补
我看不懂，但好美，喜欢所有的画面。晃动的镜头，跳舞的俱乐部，床上的两人，朋友死后的烟花，穿插的黑白叙述......工作没了，爱人走了，朋友死了，最后人总是要有家可回的。
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