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.
拍得蛮小清新的，bgm过分密集，还顺便cue了一下ts和ldgg。戳爷这个美少年也太1了吧。
套用友邻评价Spielberg版西区故事：导演，没有东西拍的话可以不拍。以及这是在纪念碑谷？
22/1/19：能唬电影小白们又方便影评人士一起糊弄门外汉的
有这样一个朋友，多好啊
这是啥毫无观影乐趣的玩意儿？看一群大腕儿秀台词功底呢？就这布景，排成话剧不香吗，何苦制成电影还浪费一个黑白滤镜呢？
这里面的丹泽尔华盛顿，表演是一种怼到我脸上的烂……前30分钟左右表现麦克白的犹疑与欲念交织，简直是一种可怕的摆烂式演法。乔尔科恩，不能打动大众，不能表达内涵，没有什么自己可说，无法丰富语法，不能推动技术，你在干嘛？？？？？？？
好叭原来不是 还好还好
不过中间突然get到了印度小哥，在渣了之后又get不到了
很奇特，忠于莎士比亚，又不多于莎士比亚，并且，是纯然电影式的，在挖掘故事意涵上，依旧杰出。
最后，片尾的PPT一出来真是给我气笑了，偷懒不是这么偷的吧？
形式非常厉害，剪裁也很得当。极简的表现主义光影建筑竟然非常服帖。
哈哈哈哈就色彩而言，老年如我现在是喜欢这种明艳的～就这还挺撩
在陈旧的戏剧中继续萃取更冷峻严酷的张力，Joel Coen让”莎士比亚”重现光彩！
抛开戳的颜来说真的挺平淡 甚至可以说是无聊的剧情
我已经忘了多久没看中文字幕了，没办法，承认不看字幕听不懂这夹杂古英语的台词，尤其还是戏剧那种大段大段的独白。well有点神棍，那种宿命预言的，还是蛮感触的，其实还是Macbeth有点怂，我感觉，一边贪恋权力一方面还要装作君子，bluh，不过没办法，毕竟是tragedy。另外就是这个黑白片了，not a fan，so， 这个就有点那种刻意retro吧，不过我还是喜欢彩色，不过某些画面，确实是刻意的，能感觉到，应该会摄影的人或是懂的人能欣赏到吧。另外就是，Macbeth刚开始没咋觉得，后面开始莎人时，我就串戏了，DW还是那个DW。口音方面，听着很舒服，毕竟是美音，不用装奇怪的英音lol。演员嘛黑白电影真的分不出来，除非看头发，不然我真的分不出来。but whatever
很喜欢电影的色调，非常有夏天的味道，而关于青春和爱的记忆，和这个浓墨重彩的夏天深深捆绑在了一起。少年的荷尔蒙像夏天的热浪一样躁动，少年的心思和夏天的雨一样难以读懂，恐惧，焦灼，怦然心动，孤单无助，开心的不开心的，都把它留在轻抚沙滩的海浪里吧~
我感觉我又相信爱情了！！！！
科恩哥哥的單飛作，竟然看不到多少科恩兄弟的痕跡，更像是一首寫給Ingmar Bergman的情詩，在保留強烈舞台感的同時又電影感十足，充滿著疏離感。黑白攝影實在太美了，可以想象如果是影院、尤其是杜比影院觀看，該是如何驚為天人。
看完的感觉就是很舒服，很流畅。不论是人设还是镜头色调都是棒。虽然也没有特别出众的地方。
真的是冲着戳爷来看的，随便一截就是壁纸。影片就是大型MV现场。
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