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.
文学性很强，缺乏相关历史/宗教知识看得吃力。暴力突然，情绪太多了，编排好像没有编排。
献给孩子们，今日之孩童，明日已垂垂老矣！时间终将带走一切，无论功利，随风而逝。
不过基本的美德 善行与坚持 守诺与怜悯等等还是表现的不错
影片其实和《鬼魅浮生》在结构上有很相似的地方，只不过这一次导演没有像之前那么沉浸于自己的镜头本身，多少把重心放在了人物身上，看之前我都忘了具体演员表，所以熟人一个接一个地出现还是很让人惊喜的。
不知道怎么评价这部电影。实际上这部电影是由两部短片构成的。前一部约一小时，讲的是意大利诺贝尔文学奖获得者皮兰德娄骨灰回乡的故事，这部分是黑白的。这是导演兄弟俩早就想拍却一直没拍成的故事。后一部约半小时，是导演的哥哥在临终前创作的短篇小说改编，这部分是彩色的。这部短篇小说没有完成，所以短片也有些无头无尾。如果硬要将两部短片总结一个共同的主题的话，那就是告别。弟弟通过一部电影，把哥哥在世时的“未完成”完成了，通过这种方式与哥哥告别。我还挺喜欢前者的，情绪饱满，十分忧伤。
行吧，又是凯尔特传说。这种充满隐喻象征的无病呻吟类型的片子，非常符合我对爱尔兰的鄙视了，湿漉漉绿油油的土地上生活着几个天生神经病的人民，并且不知道自己神经病。从外面的世界往这一看，哇文艺好片，生活在全民表亲杂交带有精神病的爱尔兰岛的无聊中产社区天天被当地人偷窥的受够了的我一看，一边去吧别来我这装大尾巴狼（片子确实在爱尔兰取景拍的一，包括南海岸和威克洛山）。
对待私人情绪抑或时代图景的哪一面都像是一个衰老且更枯竭且生疏的韦斯安德森，最无聊最腐朽的一种浪漫主义。
表以是对经典头韵文学与骑士精神的解构与重塑，实则却更像是仅对“断奶”情结的一次进阶版奇幻演绎，高质量置景艺术的鬼魅表现力，也因大量过于服帖中世纪照明水平的夜戏室内戏，而让按图索骥式的阅读成本累增，观者对高文心旅情绪的捕捉始终受其干扰与影响，不断呈现疲乏态，究其因，不过是一部自离开剧场便已“黯然失色”的风格之作
美式的假笑，美式的浮夸演技，美式的温情故事，应该在平安夜看呢
结构有趣，像是把关于民族的历史在几个故事间不停反射
还不错，有点以前《101斑点狗》的节奏，喜剧，后面也是遇到坏人要捉狗。结构虽然老，但是挺可爱的，带小孩看的童话电影，挺好的。
一部个人化的作品，献给已过世的兄弟。记忆已经褪色，未来是五彩斑斓的。
这大概是文青们的菜吧，俗人（譬如在下）建议绕行
就像中国导演拍摄一个琵琶行给西方人看一般。没有了亚瑟王系列的故事基础，缺乏西方宗教文化的铺垫，看这个电影基本上就是云里雾里。甚至连在电影中做法的女巫都不认识是大名鼎鼎的摩根勒菲，也不知高文骑士在其中的背景和现在，以及未来。高文在一路上的种种行为，也无法通过和骑士精神相联系，然后进行分析。 这样看来，作为一个非西方，甚至非英国文化的观影者，只能把这个电影理解为 一个骑士的旅行。。
题材和风格都是我喜欢的类型，整个2021年没有看到这样一部片子了。从神话改编而来的奇幻故事，配合有些空灵的镜头，形成了一种独特的美感。戴夫·帕特的演出也很精彩。
7。#72ndBerlinale//费比西奖
高文的骑士成长奇幻之旅
就像中国导演拍摄一个琵琶行给西方人看一般。没有了亚瑟王系列的故事基础，缺乏西方宗教文化的铺垫，看这个电影基本上就是云里雾里。甚至连在电影中做法的女巫都不认识是大名鼎鼎的摩根勒菲，也不知高文骑士在其中的背景和现在，以及未来。高文在一路上的种种行为，也无法通过和骑士精神相联系，然后进行分析。 这样看来，作为一个非西方，甚至非英国文化的观影者，只能把这个电影理解为 一个骑士的旅行。。
男主在赴约中历经坎坷，也在克服自私、贪婪、诱惑和胆怯，终于坚定一颗无畏无惧的心去面对这个结局。
如果不了解一点背景就一定会一头雾水的电影，海报也会加剧这种莫名。而稍稍了解一点后又可以立即感觉到其中倾注的情感与复杂内容：藉由皮兰德娄的死亡与身后复杂旅程，注入对时代变化与故人离去及死亡话题的哲学思考，再由未完成的故事和创作，带出对哥哥的纪念。内容的嵌套和色彩的变化增加了层次，会令人回想起如《恺撒必须死》等精彩前作，为艺术生涯增添新的内容。
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