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.
什么玩意啊 史诗不史诗传说不传说的 能不能把故事讲明白了先
这大概是文青们的菜吧，俗人（譬如在下）建议绕行
影片其实和《鬼魅浮生》在结构上有很相似的地方，只不过这一次导演没有像之前那么沉浸于自己的镜头本身，多少把重心放在了人物身上，看之前我都忘了具体演员表，所以熟人一个接一个地出现还是很让人惊喜的。
不知道怎么评价这部电影。实际上这部电影是由两部短片构成的。前一部约一小时，讲的是意大利诺贝尔文学奖获得者皮兰德娄骨灰回乡的故事，这部分是黑白的。这是导演兄弟俩早就想拍却一直没拍成的故事。后一部约半小时，是导演的哥哥在临终前创作的短篇小说改编，这部分是彩色的。这部短篇小说没有完成，所以短片也有些无头无尾。如果硬要将两部短片总结一个共同的主题的话，那就是告别。弟弟通过一部电影，把哥哥在世时的“未完成”完成了，通过这种方式与哥哥告别。我还挺喜欢前者的，情绪饱满，十分忧伤。
放荡不羁之人为了荣誉接受母亲所安排的“挑战”，在欢呼声中斩下绿衣骑士的头颅，为人传颂，却根本不配成为骑士，他吝啬，他贪婪，他胆怯，他无视友谊，他禁不住诱惑，根本不是传奇中所描述的那般英武，直到将死之际，他看到虚伪的王位带来的毁灭与终究逃不脱的命运，他终于坦荡，昂起头颅，接受死亡，算是得以成长
800倍速看完后半生但求一死的高文，还挺后现代的
很重的土腥味和书卷气。神秘不足、符号过多，如果能延续开篇几十秒的火焰…整个电影都会燃烧起来！鬼魅浮生是导演偶得佳作么？！
文艺风格的剧情片。适合文青吹逼，至少能通过本片了解史诗级的原著。故事晦涩，节奏巨慢，竭尽所能故弄玄虚，浪费了镜头所营造的悬疑与史诗感。
实在是有点故弄玄虚，意象堆叠过剩。也算看了一种新风格，但不是我喜欢的。我还是坚持电影体裁，讲好故事是最重要的内核。anyway全篇说教角度学到的是：直面当下的挑战，不然未来也是回旋镖，且会持续阵痛。
不知道故事背景 看不明白
没烂到家，太难看了，节奏太死了。没意思，烂片浪费生命
值得一看，我已经准备买碟了。
妈宝男一夜成长的故事不存在的，所谓死到临头的彻悟，与这一年经历的苦难都毫无关系，只是被预见了未来宿命走向的胆怯所驱使。金发碧眼的女娃在玩弄王冠，真正的未来分明跟高文无关，他还是被off with his head。倒是琢磨下一直隐身的母亲到底是帮他还是在害他（
8，绿衣骑士，女巫，灯塔，A24邪门三部曲。没做调研看得我云里雾里，事后查资料才意识到影片做的改动和小心思相当多。这个离谱的摄影和配乐把氛围做到了极致，加上晦涩的对白，真的像是走在原诗里，诡秘壮丽的自然叹为观止，中间的受难和行善增添了颇多的神秘色彩，城堡故事改动最大，但也把高文更加人性化了，有时候，确实再多的磨难也没法改变一个人，也使坏地给出了相对应的另一个结局，所以对照之下，最后展现出的骑士精神难能可贵。题外话，不知道有生之年能不能看到中国神话传说类似的演绎
看到开头手写的“A mio fratello Vittorio”就哭了。九十岁的前辈导演静静地说男孩子年轻时总觉得一切都关于自己，都将属于自己。估计不会拿到金熊，但也不重要，只希望未来还能再看到他拍一两部。肯定会入选2022对我而言重要的电影。
# 72 Berlinale 主竞赛# 值得金熊
沉重的概念体系，亟待解读而非感知，于是美丽的影像从未深入
电影本身又严肃又可爱，就像一个老先生站在你面前，你本以为他要用大道理教训你，没想到他讲到最后却是一个童话故事。骑士最后一刻如果选择软弱，即使能够当上国王也终究是一个再平凡不过的普通人，只有他知道他的骑士精神已经被自己辱没了。既然人终有一死，不妨大胆一点去迈向你的使命，成为你最想成为的那种人。
好美好美，阴郁又古典，没想到如此传统（老旧？）故事的影像化会这么美。
还挺吃导演这一套，算是这种题材里比较看得下去的片儿了
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