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.
3.女导演的反击引起思考：女人这辈子没有…是不完整的，我只不过犯了一个天下男人都会犯的错（男人出轨和女人出轨的不同后果确实是现状），男生能不能化妆（都是性别刻板印象）。画廊吐槽男导演拍戏很精辟，多元化也体现在一个人会有很多面。
生动的爱情小品，真是出乎意料地好看！
这部电影最好的就是节奏，每个情节，每个场景都不拖沓，干净利索，转场，让人感觉出一种法国梧桐树的气味，非常清新的街道，灯红酒绿的剧院酒吧，人和人之间的对谈，非常生活气息的市井故事…我觉得方言电影必须要有，我们的文化和一些独有的特色文化一定要传承。成年人的爱情好像更加有看头呢~
喜欢这部电影，有意思，台词里的小机锋小心思，让人惊喜。中国要是有伍迪艾伦，也只能出现在上海。
敬友情/敬无常/敬生命中每一次的分离/敬忘却/敬衰老/敬无垠的宇宙/敬可怕/敬遥远的旅行/敬背叛/敬认知/敬第一次学步和第一次心动/敬规则/敬秩序/也敬混乱和老无所依/敬谎言/敬誓言/敬岸上的幸存者和骄傲的白鹅/敬守护者/敬失意者/敬真诚/也敬贪婪/敬歌星/敬舞者/敬老学究/敬看客/敬老狗/敬所有人吧/敬谁都好/敬恒星/敬行星敬天杀的黑洞/也敬吵闹的流星/敬卫星/敬尘埃/敬不值一提的矮行星/敬一闪而过的彗星/敬老板/敬侍女/敬星河旅馆/敬我们自己
看这种电影的第一感观是对作者的感慨和喜爱，在国产电影里我们有多久没有直接和电影真正的创作者对话了。整个电影轻松、诙谐，说是属于上海的地标电影一点也不为过，没有外滩，没有东方明珠，只有方言和上海的人情就够了，我们太稀缺这样的有趣的电影了，对导演以及这部电影的所有赞誉都是值得的。自然有新手导演的那种都要塞一点而无法取舍的问题，但基本上都可以忽视。我觉得对于国产电影的意义来说即好的本子和好的投资人是相辅相成的，同样感谢本片的这些演员，没有他们这部电影也会失去很多光彩，《爱情神话》的成功不是偶然，是我们太需要这样有趣的而又没偏离生活太多的电影了。个人唯一有点点遗憾，餐桌戏为啥要忽视或者减轻酒水和食物的存在，那种饮食男女的感觉就在筷子边，却没有下筷子确实很急人，这是我唯一的不满。
影片设计充满了巧思，很多隐喻，双关和有趣的细节。
对于儿子的女朋友，他的选择比儿子还要坚定，就是认准了洋洋这个女孩。
昨天看完电影《爱情神话》，今天还在回味。
我不喜欢上海，在我的理解中这座城市是排外的压迫的。
灵的！导演很牛吖 完全看不出新手，故事起转承合，矛盾爆发，收尾点题 相当成熟工整又不失趣味性的一部电影！（诶呀原来是红佛夜奔！微博之前还关注过她 确实是有料的才女！）
可可爱爱！或许是人到中年，一半颓丧、一半看开之后，才能拥有的更幽默、更宽广、也更松弛的友爱。
3.女导演的反击引起思考：女人这辈子没有…是不完整的，我只不过犯了一个天下男人都会犯的错（男人出轨和女人出轨的不同后果确实是现状），男生能不能化妆（都是性别刻板印象）。画廊吐槽男导演拍戏很精辟，多元化也体现在一个人会有很多面。
不一样的地方是两性关系的设定不再刻板狗血，反而都是活生生有自己想法的独立人格人，每个年龄段都是。
影片设计充满了巧思，很多隐喻，双关和有趣的细节。
未来也许自己也会在饭桌上给后辈讲述自己的"爱情神话"，再掺点虚构，但谁会在意故事的真假呢？
这电影真的不是拍给我的吗？
最喜欢皮匠。大隐隐于市的哲人。在咖啡馆和古典音乐边上修鞋。演技真好！
另外，国摇雄起！我竟然在国产影线片听到了白日密语、还潮和八仙饭店，出息！
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