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.
终于看到一部“电影”了，要是能在大银幕上看感受应该会更好。
犬之力，下克上，underdog斗掉了恶龙，并不是复仇爽片的西部故事。视觉上令人想到《打开心世界》囧妹如是说：同性只是其中一个元素但你不能把它当gay片看。这只是一个有弱点的人被另一个也有弱点的人用一种叫“惺惺相惜”的心灵毒药毒杀的故事。这种心理上的张力和决斗用《灵契》类比更合适。Phil这个人物形象层次复杂多元，内在和外在矛盾慢慢，旧时代和新时代，健硕与瘟疫，老相识和新的入侵者，最后死在了结绳传统代代相传的习惯恪守里。这个角色无法不令人动容。没想到克里斯汀邓斯特也开始演年轻人的妈妈了，岁月无情。
蒙大拿的山来不及断 看完之后只觉得后脊发凉 与《圣母》同样是21年的大师出手 不同凡响 简坎皮恩镜头下的爱情 在对峙 在骚动 在一方与另一方此消彼长的变化 《钢琴课》里由于女主的哑女身份 情感表达趋向压抑和一瞬的决堤释放 28年后 导演将情感表现的更加阴恻 尤其是前期的新婚一章 在描绘人性幽暗的方面 简坎皮恩早已跳出戏剧性与情节的抓马 她更感兴趣的是在一个固定场域中摆弄每名角色的心思 皮绳是本片最重要的象征 它是皮肉的缠绕 也有着宗教自惩式的隐喻 这集中体现了菲尔矛盾的性格与无出路的情感 谁是胆小的兔子 谁又是被阉割的牛 能够说着温声细语将兔子杀死的男孩 温柔而残忍 如情人般的母子 如偷情式的婚姻 简坎皮恩也不会宣言式的将母亲进驻男权家庭这些符号倒给观众 你得在她的镜头里寻找 寻找那些隐隐的不和谐 而这些正反映着某种真实
早就看了。这样的电影，让你觉得电影真好，他兼具文学的厚重与故事的轻盈，有羁绊的情感、有辽阔的视听，他是讲究人的玩意儿。价值层面，他是古典的，又是前卫的，他在错里思辨，在泥里前行。你能理解共情所有人，但你会在故事里明白你跟随什么、喜欢什么、反思什么，那正是作者要诉说的。在当下，这样沉着的电影，太难得。
《犬之力》某种程度上来说是一部非典型的反西部片：以微妙而复杂的主人公角色入手，完成了对数十年西部类型片中男性气质英雄的解构。
平平无奇的日子里因为某些不可控的变量加入反而朝着瓦解的方向快速前进，多少故事都想在这种疯狂的进程中讲好一个人的毁灭史，偏偏毁灭这个牛仔的是一只兔子，一切坚不可摧的伪装都在本能的互相吸引中全面瓦解，于是这个善于庖丁解牛的好猎手，终于遇到了捕获自己的那个猎人。
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刻意的对比和符号表达，完全不如几场值得铭记的，女性导演视角下新奇，才华冲出屏幕的「性张力」时刻（那凸起的带油的马鞍！那粘在裸体上的泥土！那遮掩自慰的白布！那水中浮动的兽皮绳子！共同点就是：没有爱，只有性，特直接，女人好可怕，喜欢了）撼动人心——若没有这些，这片就太过平庸：类似去年的《最后的决斗》，好导演的生产性输出，mediocre，挺好，挺累，没意思。
不管有多少专业的解读，我觉得这是一部很无聊的片子。
终究要靠女性导演。即便是脆皮鸭能拍得特别有张力的一定会是女性和李安那样感受力强的男性。虽然是脆皮鸭，但有很多女性主义。各个方面完美展现了父权文化对人的剥夺，不懂妻子心理需求的直男，压抑自我嫉妒女性融入他的世界的深柜（于是霸凌），把母亲排除在父子关系之外的前丈夫和儿子，被寄予希望的好大儿（香火江山的文化让他自我放逐以及暴烈的霸凌女性，掌控弟弟），因为面子受损而自杀的前丈夫（原著），被男人们弱化的女人，儿子觉得她需要被保护，他觉得她懦弱，实际她只是不想去产生冲突，为了保护家人。厌恶鄙视女人，剥夺女人又要吸女人们血需要她们做白工的男人们。取景（可以画油画），镜头运用，自然光（女性会是好画家），配乐。演老母亲的是我喜欢的女演员。导演如果拍女性作家的可能不会获奖，就是现实和压制。男的裸体真难看
平淡午后，僵硬的台词，半吊子文艺，不及格的西部，终是快进了
电影堪称克制经典之作，一个其实放在任何导演手里都可以拍得风起云涌的故事，被简大导演全部做了克制的戏剧冲突，乃至前一个小时你都被波澜不惊的克制的情绪拖着走，还一如半路经过的陌生人一样，不清楚这一家到底发生了什么。后一个小时都是暗喻+阴冷而低调的血腥杀戮，对男同性恋娘娘腔的误解，被导演巧妙的置换出了真正的答案，胆小、懦弱不能用世俗的审美通过外表和兴趣爱好来判定。柯蒂今年应该获得奥斯卡最佳男配呀！整部戏的表达非常女性，假设把两位男演员换成女演员，也依然可以成立。奥斯卡近年喜欢把最佳导演奖颁奖给这样不按套路拍戏的导演（去年是赵婷），今年也许是简。
整体感觉太拖了，能感觉到一些东西，但感觉藏的又太隐晦了
前一个小时节奏缓慢，后一个小时渐入佳境，结局细想之下寒毛直竖，后劲很大。阳刚和性取向无关，就如纤弱与善良无关；外表成为伪装的盔甲，卸下之后有温柔、有孤独、有怯懦的软肋，也有不见边际的恶犬之力。
好几处摄影和片段简直不能再美了~
一个羊吃狼的故事。“恐同即深柜”的题材不算新鲜，新鲜的是，在一个大家本以为是浪漫耽美的叙事里，笔锋一转，揭穿了可笑的“男子气概”，不过是一身画皮，是道送命题。一个深柜口中嘲讽的“娘炮”，整天哭唧唧、泪兮兮，弱不禁风的小白兔，反而是笑到最后那个最“tough”的人。今年卷福的一票我投啦！
克制反显残忍。我恰恰认为简导不算是最学院派的那一卦，学院派很难做到对细节如此敏锐的捕捉，而更习惯于铺陈人物与宏大环境的对立。人心是难以洞察的，你喜欢的特质可能也会杀死你自己。
非常严整的作品，文本深邃，各种各样的人物关系和人物本身的塑造非常在线，也不再强调同志情感的合法性，跨过了绝大多数电影都没法迈过去的门槛。女性部分又与《钢琴课》完全相反，那里面被释放的东西在这里全部压抑起来，那里流畅的东西这里全部阻塞住。叙事上与其说在故意遮挡什么，不如说是把人物的行动全都展现出来，但又取消了其中的意义，只有当你回过头来把这些影像串联起来，才会明白其中的含义所在。
从开头两兄弟的气质设定，我就猜到越刚的那位越有心结，越有心结就越容易是被当时的西部社会不容，越被不容则越容易猜到是LGBT。然后一部从开头10分钟就知道要讲啥的片子，做作的旁敲侧击的搞了2小时，我只能说有些做作。好的，卷老师的演技真的还是没有图灵时唯妙唯肖，过于刚硬的掩饰其实也让他端起来了许多。
直到最后一刻才展露邪魅一笑，稍纵即逝。
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