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.
然后就出现了全片唯一的彩色片段。
最有灵光的镜头反而是最真实的一段日常影像，导演把“真实”放置在电影中并且叙述成一种“创作”，又在结尾质疑了这创作的真实性，很有意思的设置。不过还是洪常秀惯用的从平淡日常延展出去的哲学思辨，也能感受到导演自己对这种创作思路已经有些疲惫了。
希望洪接下来的创作重心转移到李慧英身上，很野，很aggressive。
22.6.9被如此正面的展示给惊到了，纯真和娇憨如此珍贵的时刻。正想标记，结果发现喜提7天，删了我不知道哪一年写的什么短评or广播。我在这一切都没有意义的机器下，不知道为何还在做着这些没有意义的事，感谢教我要更加铁石心肠。
洪常秀和蔡明亮的电影都是随笔型，独辟蹊径，远离商业
—黑白？
变焦、推拉、黑白、除了角色空无一人的镜头……
洪导再一部借characters之口表达自己想说的一切，这部更甚，从拍电影心路历程到生活观，再到大家围在一起对着金敏喜创作，明赞她的纯真，暗赞她是灵感之源…以及那个从未露面的金敏喜的丈夫…最后干脆直接凝视摄像机互道爱意，太不像个正经导演了！但是最后还是被满是爱意的镜头打动哭了！讨厌~( ´•︵•` )~
聊天场面一串连着一串，不适发生在店主和雇员，雇员和诗人，导演和演员，甚至年轻的助手和小说家自己之间。人与人关系的建立不仅依靠情感，也有看不见的东西，增加交流的阻力。直至遇见金敏喜，小说家和女演员完成一次镜花水月般的相遇。洪常秀把小说家和女演员身份的交叠与分离藏匿起来讲述，从一场场谈话里完成二人主体的交换，在生活片段里埋下残酷的成分。世人只聊金敏喜，殊不知洪才是眼光毒辣的小说家。
这部倒真有点让人摸不到了。不过不变的是漂浮在无主题上的爱自己和爱她。以及金敏喜好美，戴口罩也美！（记一部把晖子看得昏昏欲睡一个小时后终于忍不住必须停下看看花小雕搞笑视频来缓解氛围的电影 ；）
欧尼珍惜地捧着野花野草扎成的花束，轻哼着婚礼进行曲，走向老洪，一直缺席的老洪终于以声音出现，两人互道我爱你。
8.3 追寻清晰的繁复，结尾太犯规了，以至于只能以彩蛋的方式回到现实。
就，还是那样子。3.5 @Berlinale
另外一个喜欢的点是，表演生活化到了一种难以分辨的地步。
第一次看洪尚秀的电影，怎么说呢，确实挺独特的，但也确实看不懂（看了一圈影评感觉更晕了）。感触最深的应该是全片透露出的自然放松的气息以及银幕内外每时每刻的互文吧，但片中的一些小彩蛋和弧光还是没办法get到，所以电影本身自然也不太好评价，不知道后面有没有机会慢慢看懂他的电影。
充满了对洪惯常技巧的调侃，似乎暗示着他在玩笑性地自我指涉。也就是说，他以对话驱动、视觉上相对朴素的电影风格经常被认为是“文学性的”，而这部电影以更广泛、更奇妙的视角审视了一位已在一种媒介中取得成就的艺术家如何在没有任何规则和标准的基础上进行另一种媒介上的创作尝试。
虽然我知道导演的想法，我也知道粉丝的想法，也理解电影节评审的想法，但我还是觉得太普通了。某种意义上，这是小众粉丝的圈地自萌。
我看洪主要的原因：一些豆瓣迷影er太过疯狂和强烈的爱让我很快找到资源。
3.5星。只有清谈，没有开车也没有公路的洪常秀个人强烈风格的“公路片”，女主跟这个人聊聊，到下个场景再跟别人聊聊，下个场景碰到其他人又接着聊，拍电影这件事也只是聊天碰出来的巧合。必须是毫无预设与期待，看这部片才能被惊喜到，彩色的那几场，电影全部活了起来。
这几年洪常秀在柏林拿奖的电影越发靠近生活，也越发真实，我们甚至可以透过这些年电影了解导演的想法和导演的生活。相对于中期理想化地创作，现在更加化有形于无形。
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