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.
为什么一个普通的案件会变成全国新闻？
当人们站在道德的制高点，陷入一边倒的信息茧房，反而更容易被人利用。在当下的舆论环境里，拥有清醒理智的头脑，独立思考，也许比一腔热血的理想主义来的更加重要
这部电影没有传说中的那么优秀，大家给它打高分，都是因为人家敢拍。五星好评背后，是默默咽下的苦涩与不甘。
印度电影标准反转，略拖沓,庭审部分有些降智，差点看不下去。结尾些许潦草
那些拿拍摄手法、剧情bug说事，讽刺别人因为题材打五星的人，自己不也因为题材给战狼，长津湖打了五星吗？每个人都有自己的评分标准，没有谁比谁高级，用不着装高级讽刺别人。
本片三个关键词：阶级歧视、体制谋杀和肮脏政治。问：谁和谁是宿敌？答：百姓和政客。如果这是一部推理小说，那就是社会派法庭推理佳作！本来以为法庭上关于案件细节的逻辑推理大反转就够精彩了，没想到到了最后时刻又反了两重！且关于警长这重反的既在情理之中又在意料之外，不但呼应了前面的伏笔，这人物也更丰满立体了起来。最后一重反的虽然有点刻意，又有点不太现实，但却很好地满足了观众的情绪和心理。历朝历代老百姓都被人当棋子，舆情都被人当武器和工具，这个故事以小见大，从一个点撕开了社会黑暗的一角。水能载舟亦能覆舟，愚弄操纵百姓者必将被这变革的巨浪吞噬。
你们一边给韩印两国的尺度电影打着高分 一边埋汰贾科长国外获奖
可是，我们真的需要一片可以仰望的天空！
依然是这种主题依然发人深省依然存在每个角落
反转确实没想到，民意是真的很好被操作，三哥真敢拍，方方面面的黑暗都涉及了，而我们只能看看。
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除了节奏拖沓，音乐太多，其他的都不错。很敢拍，中国影业现在连印度都赶不上。
“在良心面前 没有少数服从多数的法则”
借用台词:sir 本邦的八千万人口，由你决定，他们何时该向你扔石头，何时该为你鼓掌，可以借此掩盖直升机和采矿的勾当。
感觉这部电影的意义真的已经超出电影本身能承载的量，2022年能看到这部电影真太好了。（如果你结合下今年毒教材，唐山，舆论等等，会让它显得极其真实。
7，也许很多人认为这种题材“像”某些高级的电影，只是这只是善意的误会。故事很悬浮，其中的法庭戏，如果不是编剧的经验不足就只能说明印度的法治真的太差了。警察杀人的铺垫不足导致前面不足以代入，还有莫名其妙的慢镜头，除了律师很多人都在讲显而易见的情绪，全员降智（包括控方律师）。我理解都是为了反转，最后的一小时确实亮眼，虽然全部从律师嘴里说出来不符合电影语言，但实现的情绪效果（正如角色说的，点燃观众的情绪，人们就变成了信徒）还是不错的。
民众的声音太好引导了
感觉这部电影的意义真的已经超出电影本身能承载的量，2022年能看到这部电影真太好了。（如果你结合下今年毒教材，唐山，舆论等等，会让它显得极其真实。
只有50分钟的剧场版《夏目友人帐》，浓缩了两个故事，精致又温馨。
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