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.
不会有永别，我们路上再见。三星半
自由 国人不会那么感同身受的， 许知远的十三邀里说， 他们那个年代让父母参与自己的婚姻相亲什么的， 那得都丢人 。 不是强调孰优孰劣， 而是不同从一开始就存在了。
这是一场孤独的狂欢，而我，只能是我，是最棒的女主……
有些人就是会永远在路上，有些时候，一旦退出了主流人群，就再也不能像从前一样融入一种，愿每个人都能保持并享受独立的自我。
Some kind of healing trip.
而你如仲夏繁茂不凋谢
有人得了癌症晚期，所以开着房车去旅游。
剧场版观影顺序：
走过荒野，一个人独庆新年。
无依之地的fern才真正的活着
Calm. I love Frances McDormand.
看了无依之地和骑士很能理解为什么漫威会看上赵婷，她的节奏很快逻辑又清楚，剧本充满感情但又克制，是那种市场会喜欢的文艺片导演。不过这片的范式很让我联想起拆弹部队，都是用刻板印象引入人物，经历一段洗礼和过去对视，让观众对人物改观，最后找回自己
再不买就要涨价了，积分够吗？摇号资格有了吗？（来自灵魂的拷问）
赵婷导演非常稳啊，完成度相当高，影像很扎实。这电影手法现代，也很美国。前半段很碎的剪辑，节奏拉快，夹杂着动人心魄的自然长镜头，能看到一些泰伦斯马力克，后半段慢下来，其实总体社会议题谈的不多，更多还是对人精神、情感层面的探讨和挖掘，诸如生活的意义，人生选择（人是本性和环境的混合产物，环境、人生际遇发生骤变，有人回避，有人妥协，有人直面，有人遵从本心），何处才是我们真正的归宿。科恩嫂表演绝对一流。配乐确实铺的略满，基调上苍凉感可能不够。看好夺奥斯卡BP或directing ！
"There's no final goodbye."
期待看到“不得不上路”的部分多一些从而引发一些批判，但看到的似乎多是他们主动选择了这种生活方式？太浪漫化了吧~
对话写得太好了，几个配角的对白都令人落泪。个体叙事高于一切。
又细腻又克制，孤独且温柔。像看纪录片一样，真喜欢。
独立女性的公路片。天人合一。远离人群，却又无法脱离。
善意，勇敢，真诚，认真地对待爱，执着地热爱自由，这是一个充满生命力的世界。不是对抗这个世界，而是生活在里面往前走，走自己的节奏。
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