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.
讽刺浅薄，质疑高高在上，讥笑洞察秋毫。但是感觉还可以做得更有趣些。
所谓的人间惨剧就是第二天在报纸的犄角旮旯处登篇几百字的豆腐块。
戏写得太平均太满了，虽然理解导演想由事故这一个点出发扩散成网状叙事，但种种社会议题码得整整齐齐还是不太自然，又是窒息父权，又是道歉文化，还得上演释怀老路，全程看得人胸闷，最后就像绷紧的线断了一样，也只能如此收尾了。
7.5/10 台前幕后，戏梦人生。真真假假，尽付笑谈中。
三星半。前半部分非常吸引，把期望值调到了很高，可惜结尾drama过了头。借导演之口输出了非常乌托邦的艺术观，可惜作品本身没压住，不知是低头于资本还是才华瓶颈。
太神了！！！！剧情超好笑结局也完全猜不到超神！！！！
对全球电影行业的辛辣讽刺 冲奖派明星与清高派艺术家的对决 最初关注到这部电影只是因为这部叫主竞赛的电影入围了威尼斯主竞赛hhh 然而比起全程高能的剧情这点噱头简直不算啥 就不在此过多剧透了 导演对电影艺术的看法、对观众的期望已经要溢出屏幕了 感受到了如今电影寒冬下业内人士的呐喊与不满 潘潘和班德拉斯献出了很颠覆但超精彩的表演 就算路人观众对情节不够有共鸣 二人的飙戏看起来也绝对过瘾
3.5 执着于为女儿塑造完美受害者形象的父亲，其实只是为了掩盖自己不了解女儿的事实，最终在女肇事者母亲开明和坚强对比下，承认了自己的错误…寺岛忍的角色伪善到极了，只是想用做善事给自己加分，来获取异性好感
深夜笑成狗
很好的一部探讨人性的影片！
2022.06.17 // 2022.06.19 个人原因打五星。不然四星。😛
电影人的自嘲，虽然有些表面化但挺好玩。
Penelope Cruz + Antonio Banderas + Óscar Martínez 这部黑色喜剧真的是one of my personal favs
笑死了好尬好讽刺好喜欢，不知是极简还是节约成本，密集台词，场景虽然高大上但局限在一个场馆内。/非常适合影迷（尤其阿莫多瓦的影迷哈哈，看看这些演员不常见的样子。）演技仍好但这么喜感很少见。/佩内洛普真是妙人，我再次get了她。/偶尔关心别人查别人的重疾顺手去看了牙齿美白，这不比《方形》什么讽刺多了哦。/佩内洛普两次假意借身体拿捏男演员哈哈。这要换男导演就……/接吻戏就笑死，不过大石头最妙。绞碎机不说了，留点悬念，剧透不好。/片中的戏里戏外高同步。/结尾要能强点就更好了。/不过几位先看的友邻都说两位导演退步了，我没看过他们前作，马一下。
重返戏院后回归bc的第一部，建筑和家居设计是喜欢的风格，看到了瓦西里椅和muji的袋子。讽刺而好笑，看到几张西班牙熟脸。
现实中，无论与他人还是与自己和解，或许都比电影中要难得多，人生终要背负或大或小的诸多负担走向终点。电影做得最好一点是没有为任意两个角色提供最终的谅解，但它给每个人留下了生活下去的希望。
对当今影视行业的吐槽嘲讽，一切起因是资本家想名留青史，结果搞得导演崩溃演员互掐，电影行业不易啊
制片人要抱艺术的大腿，倒也不坏，他们心中拍电影就像建一座桥，只要拿到冠名权便有机会永垂不朽，至于自己对艺术的一无所知，“对不起，我没读过一本书”，并不觉得羞耻；各位导演，尤其是有几分天份、又拿过电影节最高奖的知名导演，总是会吸引到金钱的注意，金钱又总与权力勾结，自然行使其权力也毫不掩饰，对演员的生杀予夺，既傲慢、又残忍，每一句训导都免不了言辞间的洋洋得意，对这样的佩内洛普克鲁兹真的不一定爱得起来，“要保持艺术家的活力，最好连孩子都不要生，会是拖累”；演员们则更是斯文扫地，不仅相互评判彼此的演技，还要对各自的价值观、生活方式讥讽一番。学院派嫉妒偶像派的高票房，除了指责生活作风不良，还要冠一个“迎合观众”的罪名；偶像派则用迟到来摆架子，还试图飙演技，极尽奢糜与粗俗之能事。似乎都不是什么好货色。
笑死，蛮好玩的。另，谁不想碰上一个只给钱不管事儿的金主呢！
三星半。前半部分非常吸引，把期望值调到了很高，可惜结尾drama过了头。借导演之口输出了非常乌托邦的艺术观，可惜作品本身没压住，不知是低头于资本还是才华瓶颈。
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