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.
同时能明显感受到喜欢与不喜欢这电影的地方，故事很走心，这个原创故事很棒，是一本优秀的剧本使然。然而又能感到有目的性地过分炫技，太满当变得溢价。或是剧情转折快，有些东西立体了，有些又有点赶脚。但对于奥斯卡来说技巧多未必是坏事…（7.5分）
洛哈特教授版《罗马》，故乡与童年牵扯着每一个人，在纯洁的孩子间的爱周围环绕着成长的二元论。可惜太急于叙事，缺少情绪晕染的瞬间，直到最后那个慢镜头与几句寄语，诗意才缓缓流露出来。
导演的平庸与无能造就了电影无法弥补的缺陷，结构与情节的缺失成为了整个故事最大的败笔。我只想问导演一个问题，您是怎么做到能「将角色放置在一个被宗教冲突围绕的环境里，却让宗教元素在角色的生活空间中完全消失不见的」？这种「核心内容」的缺失根本不是您硬塞一两场教堂戏就能弥补的。但凡长点心，您都该拍拍宗教斗争的残酷、社区的冷暖、乱局的惨烈、以及父母矛盾对于角色内心较深层面的影响，而不是翻来覆去一个没心没肺儿童日常的流水账，太肤浅了。
只是話口未完，2021最被高估電影，還得強調。
设计的太刻意了，冲淡了宗教冲突下小人物的那种无力感，音乐满的溢出来
4/5 第79届金球奖 电影类最佳剧情片提名
作为一个前不久刚读过《什么也别说》的人，我是能够理解导演在这样一个命题下所想要表达的一些东西的，也能够理解有一些问题现在仍不便提及。
Kenneth Branagh‘s most personal masterpiece, shooting in gentle black-and-white, with sporadic bursts of glorious color. 音乐好棒。想起一位在Belfast长大的朋友，自带爱尔兰的酒精灵魂与地域自豪。语言塑造氛围，上一次听科林摩根的爱尔兰口音还是在《MERLín》的专访。No one has captured the conflicts in Ireland more eternally than WB Yeats: "All is changed, changed utterly;A terrible beauty is born".
可以不喜欢，但一些评论的无知让人遗憾。
肯尼思·布拉纳《贝尔法斯特》2021
每一个用黑白影像的导演一定都是有野心的，或者至少是有想法的。60年代末的贝尔法斯特，动荡而不安。小男主的童年恰好在这里。镜头下的真实生活都是黑白的，唯有主角一家人看电影的时候，银幕是彩色的。忍无可忍后，一家人终于离开贝尔法斯特搬家去伦敦。等小男孩长大以后，他的童年记忆会是彩色的吗？
若把此片看成是一部私家回忆，那确是很好了。
天真可爱的儿子，十分恩爱偶尔吵架的父母，爸爸负责讲大道理带全家娱乐，妈妈负责教正直做人，再加上两位睿智老顽童和欢乐的姨妈一家，真的是理想家庭了。有这样的家无论在哪无论环境如何都不会迷失自己。
每年都有这么一两部使用黑白色彩的，每一帧都是美好的画面，海报让我想起了布列松。黑白灰度的质感，真的适合童年的回忆，一个艺术家可以用艺术的手段去回忆自己的童年，
21.11.13电影院，没有字幕的北爱尔兰口音我是真的不太行，但应该没有影响到理解吧…整个电影院大部分都是老人，还是老人家品味更好。我旁边的那个人结尾哭到泣不成声，大概也是一个离开家乡的人。
这是怎么回事？拍出来的童年往事这么枯燥无味。金球奖编剧的提名哪个不比它强，结果它拿奖了。奥斯卡最佳影片提名的有它，却没有《最后的决斗》，最佳导演提名有它却没有维伦纽瓦，最佳男配提名有它，却没有《倒数时刻》里那个G，最佳女配有它，却没有《红色火箭》里的女孩或妻子。同是英国片肯定是你挤走了埃德加赖特！
很多地方都太过刻意 铺排了非常多元素 但是互相之间没有加成的效果 最后搞得花里胡哨的却没什么意思
整体太松散了。演员阵容太强大，不明白为什么编剧反而得奖。
4星
男人的乡愁永远如此平庸，不舍得过去，不敢面对未来，最后还是女人决定要离开，女人说don't look back。但总的来说，很平庸的电影。
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