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.
自从《反基督者》开始，每次看到电影里有威廉达福，就预感他最后会是个惨逼，结果每次还真都是…….
剧情太老套了吧！男主身材好长相还好，还纯情，这种男的也就电影里有吧
不想当布列松的施拉德不是好小津？但他真是毫无视听审美力啊
本来想打三星或者是三星半，但实在是太假了，或是太做作了。欧~
好久没看这么简单纯粹的小妞电影了，全是套路，不用动脑。
Tye Tye水城主竞赛三刷。打破赌片常见的刺激，抑或是神算超能提供的聪明；一次启程、一次探视、交织在其中的主人公，提供了复杂却又触及内心的角色研究。还有在闪回部分采取的镜头也异常地有风格，并带来更强烈与不安夹杂的冲击。2021年了我还是在慨叹Tiffany Haddish的过度选角以及资源妒忌，只能说Paul试着挖掘了她；并且里面的每个演员都经由这种挖掘与调度- -有熟人，有看到选角消息以为是来搞笑的，成就了许多意想不到的化学反应。
全片明暗摇曳、压抑隐忍，加之男主角着实冷峻，紧绷绷地透着无限内心交战，可惜了这位扑克精算师，最后再度身陷囹圄；所幸音乐足够煽风点火。
Austere到浮华，无处不在的枷锁，连呼吸都要叫观众一同沉重。//原声碟太好听了！
Sep 9, 2021, Hi-pointe
恐怖的控制力，犹如审讯时被“强迫”集中着注意力，威慑感充盈整个电影。思维被吸入影像，裂开成算牌与书写的双重知觉，而后又消融在某个道德阴影下的冲动时刻。类型主题也不再提供刺激感，它被理智的自我鞭笞所替代，正如未来被过去的罪感殖民，噩梦暴露出原始的恐怖，只好像清教徒般书写罪状。
怎么只有6分，瓣青品味太高了，我是土狗，我给十分。男主太像布鲁斯南了，我直接嘶哈嘶哈
單身狗看著看著就酸了😭
改编的没我脑补的好😌种草了“go away I'm reading”的杯子
赌博类型片的外壳，内在是导演施拉德反复多次拍摄的赎罪主题。主人公的身份设计有趣而值得深究，算牌高手往往能掌握赌桌上的胜算几率，却难以控制他人的命运轨迹。沉静缓慢的叙事节奏配合上隐约诡异的配乐，将潜藏主人公的心魔再次勾引出来，这种难以磨灭的道德愧疚感是类似赎罪题材的核心，也是近年来好莱坞反思题材的常见模型。施拉德此次突破不大，在过于精密的掌控之下流露出黑色影片的气质，整体而言过于老派，不讨好年轻观众是意料中事。
Final week 复习作死看的电影// 看了小说一定会看电影的人就是我/// 蛮甜的
我就爱看这样的电影🙉🙉🙉还有最后的音乐stay 100（swim team ft luna）挺好听就是网易云上没有
跟老婆一起看这种电影肯定是比被逼着看国产脑残剧强的。
不想当布列松的施拉德不是好小津？但他真是毫无视听审美力啊
2022.03.24
主要是一个美好的开头 后来因为人生本来就是不公平的 所以冤
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