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.
三星半。开头迷雾中浮现幽灵般的面孔，旷野倒影中三位一体的女巫感觉很对，王宫部分表现主义的灯光构图营造了灵魂监狱的空间，将麦克白和其他毒物一起置于巨大的锅底，命运女巫俯瞰的视角选择也有意思，树叶和乌鸦的变形让人想起希区柯克和疯癫的梵高，缺点在于几位主角的表演似乎都不在一个频道，和电影调性最吻合的反而是现代舞剧/腹语术画风的女巫。
高纬的日光真的还蛮像舞台追光效果的。语法其实还蛮统一的，幻像与预兆全都来自光的变形，除此之外就真的很怀疑还在用这个文本玩什么。Frances McDormand的表演跟这部难得地非常配搭，“演给你看”的过度表演刚好提供了造作的面部与体态的形状。
其实就科恩的水平，即使单飞也能把这样一出反映命运对人类捉弄的本子拍出新意，毕竟这也是他们曾经常用的主题，但是他不仅没有这么做还拍出了一部华而不实的无聊作品，着实让人失望了。
感觉两个主角不是特别来电
8/10。有好多时候我以为我在看舞台剧。摄影很棒，开头的白屏和结尾的黑幕绝了。喜欢这种冷峻氤氲的氛围。只是大段像诗的台词要思索，看得我脑壳疼。
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？！
上手经典进行大胆的诠释与更新，各版期望传递的讯息、选角思路以及具体背景各不相同；但灵魂依然是对权欲的无边渴望与心魔诱惑之下的失控。最出彩的是用极简的方式想象另个时空之下的皇室，空荡的走廊、由高墙和钢筋立柱树立的王位“监狱”还有仿佛没有尽头的门框…这里如此冰冷，仿佛可以吞噬所有。透过这些装置的感受，不断地与熟稔许多的故事交融；泽帝让人又爱又恨，这里是前半部分。
为了停车迟到了5分钟，进去已经是三个女巫的部分了，然后才出片名。自己觉得片名都没错过应该能看懂——结果一句都听不懂。忍不住在包里看手机搜豆瓣评论，才发现纽约的朋友们也集体表示台词听不懂。那我就放心了。最后冲过去跟Carter Burwell表达了半天自己对暮光配乐的喜欢，没等他说啥我就走了哈哈哈哈哈。。#三十多了，无厘头一如既往。#
and第一次无字幕看的全英电影
两星半。光影和摄影比较亮眼，感觉科恩像是玩腻了反类型的叙事后，开始返璞归真找了最稳的莎翁剧本来满足自己美学诉求，但是除此之外我看不到任何亮点，《蜘蛛巢城》里人物的心理是跟着音效和意象随时波动，而麦克白的悲剧上映前着重宣传的表现主义，结果只有寥寥几个镜头，剩下的时段大多重复着类似的构图，纯粹是舞台剧，人物的内心的挣扎全靠台词表现，这也让所有角色变成了一个个僵化的读本机器，甚至拖累了表演。
好神奇 看这个电影的时候很符合我当时所经历的一些事情 有被鼓励到 最后奶奶说的话 等待不等于放弃 当然是要挥起拳头去等待。
为了停车迟到了5分钟，进去已经是三个女巫的部分了，然后才出片名。自己觉得片名都没错过应该能看懂——结果一句都听不懂。忍不住在包里看手机搜豆瓣评论，才发现纽约的朋友们也集体表示台词听不懂。那我就放心了。最后冲过去跟Carter Burwell表达了半天自己对暮光配乐的喜欢，没等他说啥我就走了哈哈哈哈哈。。#三十多了，无厘头一如既往。#
套用友邻评价Spielberg版西区故事：导演，没有东西拍的话可以不拍。以及这是在纪念碑谷？
请问是在卡戴珊的极简豪宅拍的吗？苏格兰曾有一刻是瓦坎达！
高纬的日光真的还蛮像舞台追光效果的。语法其实还蛮统一的，幻像与预兆全都来自光的变形，除此之外就真的很怀疑还在用这个文本玩什么。Frances McDormand的表演跟这部难得地非常配搭，“演给你看”的过度表演刚好提供了造作的面部与体态的形状。
D— / 和「曼克」一块儿打包去世，没有说这两部很像的意思...
高度电影化的戏剧表演，所有演员都在飙戏。每一个场景都很惊艳。台词听懂了一半，还以为自己听力水平不够高，结果一起观看的英国朋友也没听懂。。
略低于预期，但黑白光影十分震撼，科恩嫂依然惊艳
NYFF首映/科恩的绿衣骑士 更宿命论更精神分析一点 中世纪的冷峻感已接近第七封印 鬼魅感借由光影和建筑实现 medieval brutalism让画面更流畅更冷峻 与戏剧腔形成反差 但科恩没让美学大过故事 秘诀在于denzel washington和fran极致神经质的表演 暗黑低灰度画面结合二人沙哑嗓音更加质感/但科恩兄弟早已不是科恩兄弟了 命运捉弄的巧合感和黑色幽默减半 但符合A24一贯挑片 后现代解构经典和神话 文本里却满满是现代人的困境
丹泽尔华盛顿与弗朗西斯麦克多蒙德演技大秀。文绉绉的台词，不做太大改编的故事，毫不遮掩的舞台剧模式，简洁有力的黑白舞台设计，都很好，但都让本片呈现出“有价值但多少有点无趣”的感受。
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