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.
反转的是可以的，但本来是一个有大情怀的玩意儿，最后扯到个人恩怨上…这不是格局小了么，而且演员太一般了，印度这点儿演员啊哈哈
从电影角度来讲，是一部合格的商业片，稍微有些拖拉，高分就还是在于“敢拍”，以女性被强奸案调查为入口，就在大家接受了一个设定的时候，剧情全面翻盘，而当惊诧于律师的身份时，又出现了第三层反转。一部片子拍了女性地位、权力制度、种姓制度、社会舆论，看着倒也是会让人思考
导演给自己刷三条5⭐可以吗？
2.5 肥皂剧改成电影真的欣赏不来，不如改名《老时代》
解决提出问题的人，所有阶级固化的体制下都有肮脏的政治和血淋淋的尸体
印度电影行业的发达程度以及敢拍程度真的令人望尘莫及“一个国家的尊严就等同于它给女性的尊严”
"我们都是傀儡 在这个世界上"
敢拍能拍就是好电影了？自问自答、频频反转，就是好编剧了？原来这就是流量密码啊
巧妙地把各种矛盾融合到了一起，就是BGM有点吵
最油膩的其實是配樂，但不妨礙在國產電影維度交出了一份好的成績。對於習慣逃避真實城市風情和缺乏中產描繪的中國商業電影，那份在地性和不做作都挺珍貴，最喜歡的是一些對白的subtext寫法以及結尾周野芒的solo演出，情緒高潮竟是由副線周野芒一人完成，且並不失效，這其實滿破格。兩岸三地女性新導演們在文本角度碾壓男導演們幾乎已是客觀事實。
节奏有点慢，观点蛮尖锐，印度政府还比较自由啊，这也能上映
看一半被剧透后真就索然无味了。电影本身不错反转足够，氛围也强。时长过长了
问题是，现在这把锄头去哪儿找呢？
对爱情内核的探讨也只是小资的隔靴搔痒，到底没谈出什么东西来，文青喜欢这个也能理解。
开始看不进去，后面两次反转还是相当精彩的～
侠气欢喜个则结尾，情敌变同盟的三两男男女女望着银幕，透出的光洒落在身上。阿拉则不知不觉融入了电影里，成为被观看的角色，字幕悄无声息上升，简单自然又耐人寻味。白辛苦不辛苦，费里尼额老多电影，吾啊看伐懂~紫亿到伐？最后《爱情神话》校对和翻译：一额是红拂；一额是夜奔
弄堂开出解语花。阿姆斯特朗说得好，你们男男女女的一小步，却是中国电影创作自由的一大步。只是如此摩登洋气的故事，只能发生在上海...吗？
18:26 上海宝山
题材加一颗星 敢想敢说 但说好一个故事的各方要素都太薄弱了
最好的办法是放弃连根拔起的荒唐念头，用锄头也好，大斧也好，把树根的主干切断，挖出最大的隐患，而那些残根在见不得光的地下，得不到养分的输入，也会慢慢腐烂，最终成为泥土的一份子了。这样对将来另起屋宇也好，松土种菜也好，不会产生大的阻碍。
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