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.
从主题（inspiration、mental illness与spirituality、historical burden的缠杂关系）到声画（赖特的强项）、角色都很精彩，尤其前一个小时。但情节上又是“开头结尾有了画面，发展部分没想清楚于是硬来”，vision的过度反真实处理导致观众中途抽离，是这种没想清楚的症状之一。当然，这种硬来与“uncanny导致抽离”也是1970年代恐怖电影的特征之一，或许可以当作赖特致敬的表现吧——至少比温子仁的手法高超多了。总之，2020年拍出这个水平，值得推荐。
不会真有人觉得嫖客死了就会变得很可怕吧？不会真有人觉得妓女反杀就是大反转吧？导演对性别运动的嘲讽振聋发聩啊，何必结尾再一番讨好呢？到底有没有ball啊兄弟？
真实/虚化的3（2）位女主角满是剥削，看似工具人的几个真实男性却满怀善意，女权红利彻底被赖特吃偏了。
7/10。不难发现赖特受到了希区柯克、德·帕尔玛的影响，火烧阁楼一幕男性幽灵的镜头中极快速插入凶刀的大特写，想必源于《惊魂记》的著名凶杀剪辑，而珊迪踏足六十年代浮华的舞池时，观众通过银幕看到镜像化的分身和多重空间，艾洛伊斯的真身和珊迪的分身纠缠，剪辑、布景的炫技调度营造入梦/出梦的丰富变化，像德·帕尔玛式的分身电影。相比鸡肋的铺垫情节，闪烁神秘灯光的酒吧、派对、时装秀和唱片机，弥漫期间的女性色情奇观，召唤出了男性荒淫的威胁信号，纯真无邪的艾洛伊斯被侵染成金发、黑眼影和白面妆的浪荡身体，迎接她的是年老珊迪——犹如从地狱闯出的复仇恶鬼。出租屋象征性地打开了一个时间隧道：物恋化的黄金年代与成名欲的幻灭感形成深厚冲突。但影片经典文化的拼贴感，完全是去深度化、原创性缺失的，体现了独立作者向商业片的妥协。
这可能是埃德加·赖特第一部以女性作为主角的影片，但依然体现了他在类型融合方面的天才。影片以上世纪铅黄电影的素材和色调打底，在此基础上叠加了现代女性闯荡大都市的情节框架，将这两者以梦境相连接完全吻合了女性互救的时代潮流。
好看哈哈，这个结尾虽然很俗气，但我看的很开心
1. 女主比安娜好看一万倍，不知道安娜的神颜是怎么夸出来的；
艾丽在伦敦/午夜伦敦 的恐男歌舞片 虽然略显廉价 但我还是觉得很不错！安雅这种风格也很好看
WTF 怎么会烂成这样。。。（TT好想回去 BTtower那一片才是我家emo emo
有趣的是不同时代的互动如同阴风阵阵般的华丽视听
可能人需要走出舒适区才能发现自己还是需要待在舒适区里。这部电影埃导做了很多不一样的尝试，放弃了很多自己的特点，结果变得平平无奇。以及男导演塑造女性角色能写好得确实不多，都要靠配角衬托，还有很多想当然的东西。很想告诉埃导，不会拍女的就别拍了，跟胖胖瘦瘦一起玩不好吗？
【2.0】友邻形容的马戏团杂耍招式的电影调度很形象，虽然我是觉得花哨的调度在这个作品里完全谈不上出错。不喜欢此片纯粹因为反转做得太掉价。
这个故事实在不该拍电影，应该拍迷你剧。电影的篇幅对于这个故事来说太短了些，从片子的前两幕来看，团队为主角设计了很多细腻的暗线，迫于电影篇幅，这些线并没有很好的展开，尤其是主角母亲这条线，有一段时间如同被遗忘了一样，直到最后才突然捡起来
埃德加的趣味和可爱荡然全无
黑人男孩换掉不香吗？剪辑棒，视觉炫，特技运用不动声色，美术等各项技术指标均不错，包括节奏控制，值得国产惊恐片学习借鉴，但令人瞠目结舌的烂尾很意外。主题“不要依附男人，一切靠自己”的表达清晰，但老太太反转来得生硬，大跌眼镜，因为是成熟导演的作品，要求就自然期许更高，所以4星减2星！尽管第2天还专门导入剪辑台又拉了一遍，再次欣赏可圈可点处，但还是因为最后的反转处理弱鸡，活生生的把老太本值得同情的悲剧角色搞成恶魔，成了简单粗暴的女权杀戮爽片，还有亚历克斯的一句话加一个耳光把老太扇清醒处直接看笑喷，一部被第3幕毁掉的好电影。 6.8/27K 【IMdb7.2/75K 预算4300万美元，北美票房1012.7万美元，全球票房2295.7万美元 】
电影演到一半儿，最恐怖的场景还是出现了，女主终于还是跟个即使在猿族崛起里也属于丑猩猩的演员啃了起来，还开心的滚到了床上。我曾经以为自己是个重口味电影爱好者，可当下的现实让我明白自己的承受力是多么的有限。白皮完蛋了，希望我们能再多守些年。
Sandie的迷人保证了故事最后一丝可信度和情感重量。
题材很新颖，和《偷窥者》一样猜不到结局，被编剧带着走，非常有趣。
選歌保持質素。但是除此以外，這是導演在類型嘗試上的一次失準。
一切皆为尘埃的六十年代迷乱神游梦。梦、现实与精神不可分离的 “有” 与 “空” 的某种微妙关系。托马辛表演有些用力过猛啊，黑人小演员和唐·钱德尔没有血缘关系？
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