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.
前三分之二都困到整个电影院充满了心照不宣的倦意。毕竟改编麦克白就像改编水浒红楼，所有人都知道结局了，还能怎么更好看一点呢。本来想指责这片完全没挖掘到法鲨那版麦克白的战争废土和ptsd躯体化的轰鸣感，但从麦克白的夫人发疯开始直到结局，都为这版莎翁老戏新编提供了标杆一般的建筑语法。表现主义的黑白大反差，利用上下楼梯的大全景直喻死与生的ascending和descending。王座前迎接的谋杀，飘荡的漫天纸钱，悬空战壕矮道里的厮杀与悔意的冠冕，以及结尾黑鸦将一切席卷成空，这些影像细节可能很长一段时间内可能都会垄断对麦克白的改编想象。
形式主义，老派的拍法，但是《麦克白》看过太多版本了，这并不是最好的。
是那种看五分钟和看一百零五分钟感受不会有太大区别的电影，我们已经知道莎翁是如何做的了，但乔尔·科恩并没有给出不一样（不见得是更好，但应该是更新）的东西。女巫造型挺像《第七封印》里的死神。
啥时候咱们也能把《牡丹亭》《窦娥冤》《长坂坡》《葬花吟》翻来覆去地拍，啥时候咱才是真的站起来了吧
光明之中的黑暗，灰色的世界，黑与白……
啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊永远黏黏糊糊下去吧！！
戳爷很适合这种清醒的小甜剧，虽然题材很严肃，但拍出了夏天暑假的感觉。
除了色调、troye的脸和歌以外都真的很不行啊，就这还能7.2？我拜托了……把一些青春片拍烂了的话题全部放进去一锅炖，故事节奏迷惑，跟印度哥毫无cp感。
史上演技最好的麦克白与麦克白夫人，摄影绝到无话可说，极简主义打造的黑白布景将舞台剧效果拉满，然而最大的感想却是——科恩兄弟解体了？！
A24外观下是对茂瑙、斯约斯特罗姆、德莱叶默片时代的回归，但没必要。
#NYFF59# 主演演技封神！科恩兄把莎士比亚直接搬上荧幕，配乐和镜头都非常赞。奈何没有字幕的古体英语我只听懂了50%，好在知道故事梗概，但仍需要看字幕再来一遍
泰剧迷app yyds，剧情无删减，资源又丰富。
在经典文学的大山面前，从文本层面的确很难突破了。也许为了另辟蹊径，导演很努力地在影像层面上做突破，黑白的色调让画面变得肃穆，简约的置景让人物的肖像成为核心，还有古典的构图，这些让这部电影太像伯格曼拍的了。
本片由科恩兄弟的兄長喬爾科恩單飛導演，改編於莎士比亞筆下四大悲劇之一的《麥克白》。編導一方面保留了莎翁原作的劇場色彩，運用硬朗的舞台燈光捕捉角色默念獨白的時刻，另一方面運用成熟的電影技巧，為一個不斷被翻拍的經典劇作注入強大而震撼的電影力量。喬爾科恩在創作手法援引前人，比如採用黑澤明同樣的電影比例畫面以及參考奧遜威爾斯鍾情的德國表現主義手法，在稀奇古怪的建築佈景描述人心難測，超現實地表現被命運和野心操縱的麥克白的悲劇。當然，喬爾科恩也有其不同於前人的創作技巧，相對黑澤明和奧遜威爾斯抽象而富象徵式描繪麥克白的掙扎，而本片卻是精準而具體地掌握文本以及畫面的肅殺氣氛，一步步把麥克白那可怖的心理變化展現出來。
本片由科恩兄弟的兄長喬爾科恩單飛導演，改編於莎士比亞筆下四大悲劇之一的《麥克白》。編導一方面保留了莎翁原作的劇場色彩，運用硬朗的舞台燈光捕捉角色默念獨白的時刻，另一方面運用成熟的電影技巧，為一個不斷被翻拍的經典劇作注入強大而震撼的電影力量。喬爾科恩在創作手法援引前人，比如採用黑澤明同樣的電影比例畫面以及參考奧遜威爾斯鍾情的德國表現主義手法，在稀奇古怪的建築佈景描述人心難測，超現實地表現被命運和野心操縱的麥克白的悲劇。當然，喬爾科恩也有其不同於前人的創作技巧，相對黑澤明和奧遜威爾斯抽象而富象徵式描繪麥克白的掙扎，而本片卻是精準而具體地掌握文本以及畫面的肅殺氣氛，一步步把麥克白那可怖的心理變化展現出來。
居然是科恩兄弟的作品，话说这还是科恩兄弟么？差点没认出Denzel Washington，还以为是Jamie Foxx，科恩嫂倒是依旧抢戏啊，改编莎翁是需要两把刷子的，兄弟合体效果应该会更好。
史上演技最好的麦克白与麦克白夫人，摄影绝到无话可说，极简主义打造的黑白布景将舞台剧效果拉满，然而最大的感想却是——科恩兄弟解体了？！
青春成长故事，又一次证明了男朋友不如闺蜜。另外，我要说一句，零食散落在自己睡的床上真的让我不能容忍，在我的世界里，谁都不能这么做，包括我。电影这一幕上演时我丝毫没有感到浪漫，只觉得窒息！
油画般的质感，绝美的打光，复古的画幅，一切都太中世纪了，太有戏剧感了！
就，有点，忒艺术了，我一介凡人彷佛回到了若干年前看第七封印时的心情和感受。
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