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.
这个吃人不吐骨头的印度体质神兽，要是在片尾留一个带货的链接的话，估计这会儿已经有上亿人把这食人兽买回家当宠物了吧。
后半程的法庭表演扳回一些也无力回天，
反转就反转了，因为节奏一般故事讲得一般丝毫没有感到惊喜。想讲的东西太多了，一个多小时都看得很疑惑不知道到底想说啥，说印度是个大X坑吗？
看惯了只在结尾最后五分钟的那种大反转，这部电影的反转提前了整整一个小时，我只能用shock来形容当时的观影感受了。唯二的缺憾，一是配乐太烂俗煽情，商业片气息扑面而来；二是结尾找补过头了，没必要花几分钟的镜头快速切换堆砌出一条新的故事线。总体而言，肯定是我天朝没办法拍出的好片吧
其实这部电影的重点并不在末日危途，而是借极端背景去探讨信任和生命意义的内涵。
文化要自信，先要放开约束，绑手绑脚怎么自信？绑人的在那喊自信有什么用？
结尾反转略显刻意，电影的主题和情绪煽动性极强
流水账似的煽情片，缺少故事渐进和铺垫，每个角色都脸谱化了。
最后的合影破防了但忍不住思考：一个有情感的机器人和狗谁应该享有更多priority？让有情感的机器人牺牲自己保护狗是不是一种不人道主义行为？
同时信任也是生命力的根基。有个词，叫“生无可恋”，反过来说，也意味着，有可恋才是生的意义。所以人们才要通过各种方式——或感情或物质，或人性或神性——创造人生的意义，而这个过程就是去信任，信任“生有可恋”，我们才不会干涸。
世界末日再可怕也可怕不过生老病死，所以我们要尽情享受每一天的阳光啊！
一边跪，一边哭。
严格来说片子的镜头语言一般，甚至偏差，但题材敏感，创作团团有勇气拍，审核又通过，说明印度电影在进步！
从电影的角度来看，或许只是四星。但从立意角度而言，五星值得。它挑战了体制、政治、教育、女性、司法等，也是我们奇缺的。
真相…
补标 一人一机一狗 人机相托 心光助前行
故事B：种姓制度下寒门博士难改命50连跳；
排球换成机器人了 汉克斯快去世的时候细节拍的太好了 很感人 这里的感情真的很细腻 又像朋友又像师徒又像父子
虽然并没有这么拍，最后还是着落在政治的腐败，阴谋的反转，正义的伸张，还涉及了印度最根深蒂固的种姓制度。而且拍得挺好，瑕疵就是男主中场才出现，要结尾各种闪回来补充人物。
与疫情斗得身心俱疲的我们太需要这样一部电影，温馨，感动，放缓情绪和节奏，来一次心灵的旅行~怀念那些单纯和美好。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
