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.
「在这个世界上，我最不想要成为的人是我的母亲，因为她的恐惧，会成为我的恐惧，而她的软弱，会使我软弱。」
可能因为倾诉欲太强烈了感觉故事其实讲得有点粗糙，但真的很好哭，好几个家人相处的地方看得胃痛，和《别告诉她》如果对照着看可能还蛮有意思的
迁徙、病痛及上一场疫情映射时代洪流的无可抵挡，令个人选择的崩塌或激变成为家庭情感可信的爆发点，在天才少年演员的灵性协作下足以拓展为大中华地区的焦虑迷思。
她把女儿带到了美国，却要责怪她拥有了美国人的思维，真是可笑
期待太高了，内心毫无波动。不要白天投屏看🥲好暗好暗。
做人好难，做小孩好难。等终有一日理解大人处境时，又会有小孩让自己明白没长大的时候多不懂事，其实谁想懂事。
比《瀑布》细腻太多了，娓娓道来，一切都很好
最难得的是导演的真诚，勇敢面对当时自己对母亲的残忍和逃避，并且细致耐心地梳理出来呈现给观众，但整体看完还是觉得少了一点什么，剧本有点单薄？
我看之前，电影群的人说，太好哭了，有人说从十几分钟就开始哭，我想我眼窝子这么浅，特意找了独自在家的时候看，打算痛哭一场，没想到，这片共情真是有门槛，相比让我哭的稀里哗啦的狗十三，我看这片全程，无法被打动，无论这母亲还是孩子，是家庭还是学校，都让我觉得烦躁，压抑，厌恶，导演短片Jiejie可以看成是前半部，去的时候难以融入，回来又是如此，换环境对孩子来讲确实伤害很大，不过这里面，妈妈当初到底为什么去美国，去治病？去生孩子？我一直在等一个答案，却一直模糊处理，内容文本上更像是自己人生某一段过往的事件的拼接，像那辆自行车一样，出现之后从没被骑过，造作，
親子矛盾/身份認同/成長陣痛… 在2003Sars的背景下，社會的不安映照著這四口之家的焦慮… 每個人都有自己承受的壓力，爸爸宗輝肩負全家經濟來源又要照顧妻女… 媽媽莉莉忍受化療病痛…妹妹芳安也活在巨大的不安全感中… 劇情主要從大女兒芳儀視角切入，離開美國的好友和白馬，回到新店，剪短髪/被體罰/資優生變成全班最後一名…這一切，都是因為媽媽罹癌造成的?… 文化和生活的不適應只是表層，類似爸爸對芳儀說的''如果一直逃避，去哪都不會變…'' 芳儀渴望獨立又恐懼與媽媽分離的矛盾心境，青春期的混亂與衝撞，全世界都不懂自己的孤獨感… 一個原本很容易拍得窠臼的故事，編導通過細膩的情感經營，讓觀眾可以共情每個角色，全片充滿著淚點和時代'回憶殺'… 母女情 拍的比[瀑布]要戳心😭… (2021TGHFF)
75/100 在陷入以家庭为主域的内外冲突的莫比乌斯循环中留存了一丝和解，不仅是与他的，也有自我的
SARS背景下的一个家庭故事…比较细腻的日常，虽然平淡但也有动人的点。
竟然是处女作，导演太成熟，敏感又脆弱尖锐又无力。挑不出什么毛病的片子，非常喜欢一些细节满满又情节缺失的处理。想拨乱反正，这才应该是最佳影片，林嘉欣也不知道比贾静雯强了几条街。
像是把人按进温水里。不会凉也不会沸腾。只是这烧水的锅不该有一股铁锈味。
台湾的市场拍不了大片。但是小片，总感觉为了小而小。
女导演讲起母女故事绵里藏针，又细腻又精准，我从Sacramento一路哭到新店。3.5
-可是如果这已经是她的最好了呢？
影片很淡，生活里琐碎的事、家人间相处的难。好像我们都是这样长大的，即便是一家人，每个人都各自在生活里拥有课题，回到家里碰撞在一起。芳仪说「我只是觉得妈妈可以做得更好一些。」思婷反问道「万一这已经是她的“最好”了呢？」很多细节是很生活化的，在不同的年代和语境下都会碰触得到。不煽情、不夸张、不窥探，有留白、有温柔、也有感动。
女儿怀念向往曾经的生活，以为等在原地的是代表自由美好的小马 其实妈妈才是一直温顺等待家庭 疾病套上辔头的白马吧…说不上具体好在哪，足够真所以足够动人 “我的白马儿你慢些跑啊，这一次没有我带你回家。”
父母没有觉察到这一点，更没有把孩子当成和自己一样的人，想要用权威控制TA们，使用所有沟通方法中，最没有效，最伤人的方法，用情绪对抗情绪。
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