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.
真是四海无闲田呀！
读书是为了什么？书上教你“大学之道在明明德”，现实教会了你尔虞我诈以上欺下，问你，读书的意义是什么？是为了做一个道貌岸然的伪君子吗？还是为了与这肮脏的世界同流合污，用那点贫瘠的文化去装点自己的肮脏的内心？人心里应有一把善恶的秤，而不是只有利益。
7.5分。2021年最得中国传统思想之辨的电影，来自韩国。体会不到身为中国人“该有”的“文化自信”，只体会到了“文化自卑”。
很崇敬那些在儒朱仕林当道的时代，
在电影院看的，一个人包场，黑白加古装，台词有些也听不太懂，而且，途中我还睡了一觉。
百想 名至实归啊，儒教与基督教的冲突，士大夫的出世入世，去写经史子集还是编写鱼谱，没有一部电影可以如此详细的探讨这么多话题。
什么是真理？读圣贤之书，做混蛋之事，这就是熟知真理的两班吗？或许为人类知识做出一点点积累的努力是真正圣贤该做的事情。
用中华文化做着人家电影的文化输出，算你厉害！
用中华文化做着人家电影的文化输出，算你厉害！
要说是李导最重形式感而轻戏剧性的一部吗？非贬义，反倒是浅浅的欣喜。因为似乎品到了那么一点儿大象无形的意思了。个人太喜欢全片基本保持的黑白影调，光的质感很通透，仿佛感受到海边灿烂的艳阳和波浪上明晃晃的反光，令黑山这个流放地，也撇去了荒凉贫瘠苦寒之感，而是充满暖意和安慰。故事风格是潜水深流，平静而有力。值得看。
长大了才知道怀有好奇心的成年人竟是少数。小时候学的那些郁郁不得志或者隐居的文人故事如今也感同身受...
更愿意研究通透明净的海洋生物。
视听上拍出了文人故事的范儿，无奈故事本身（对中国观众来讲）没什么新意，结尾跟《思悼》的问题一样，弄得太满以至于略显刻意，不过总体还是不错的
拍得不错，但我真希望是我们中国人拍出来的啊。
可能是从师徒二人各自成家开始意境急转直下，黑白画面倒是遮掩了一些尴尬。
古代朝鲜士大夫传记片，宏观上讲文化入侵、多元文化交流下的矛盾冲突；微观上讲士大夫融入平民生活，是阶层矛盾。丁若铨著书立说不为万世文章，而是一本自然科普记录，也是现代人寄托与传记所展现的文明开化视角。在丁若铨眼里学问不只是经世致用的工具，耶稣和孔子、朱熹并不冲突，像他手里的地球仪，世界是圆的，多种文化可以交融，好奇心胜过偏见，即使是研究海里的鱼类贝类也有意义。他没有阻止学生实现自己的梦想，他不仅授业，也用自己所坚守的道传道、解惑。他说“斑鳐走的路斑鳐知道，黄貂鱼走的路黄貂鱼知道。”每个人的路不同，每个文化代际、国家时局也变幻不定，他兼容并蓄，不为外物所移，大成若缺，死而无憾。
想螺蛳壳里作道场，以小博大却力不能逮。相较日影，韩片完全不擅长说教思辨体悟自省这一类题材，台词不凝炼，意像不典型，情节不自然，片中的几首汉诗水平不敢恭维。无论中学西学儒教天主教，对于韩国而言都是舶来品，反思二手文化总显得隔靴搔痒。在匮乏深厚底蕴的情况下强行人文关怀蛮尴尬的，几番坐而论道也流于形式，空洞苍白机锋乏力，做不到醍醐灌顶。如果只企求国产片拍到这种流俗肤浅的水平，无疑是低估了中国文化的格局和气度，也低估了中国人反躬自省的能力和深度。
历史人物传记题材，拍成了一副黑白水墨画，哲学、政治、阶级、理想、文化，众多元素融入一处，丝毫不显杂乱突兀，这是导演的本事！后面昌大为官一段能够轻减收敛几分就更好了！
陆续看完，近来正好在讨论躺平，豆瓣还删掉了这个小组，可见引起波动之大。天主教最终还是成为韩国的主流宗教，虽然和性理学一样，都是上层阶级为了统治拿来就用的工具，人只有自己主宰自己才是真的人，但如果这样，成为无利用价值，是否还能生存？
男二号卞约汉真特么帅，留胡子的造型真像张国荣啊。长这么帅其实真不适合穷苦海岛上的角色。
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