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.
最后几分钟被击中了 他能给她的全部都在电影里了
【Mediocre】C
洪尚秀的电影越看越美妙，洪绝对是当今最富有精力和创造力的导演了，这一年一个本子的创作精力属实太牛了。本片又是一个完完全全的洪尚秀电影风格，那为什么我们还没看腻呢？因为即使手法相似，每一次的人物关系、对方内容都是不同的，加上洪在电影里关于现实自我的影射和作者的二重性叠加，电影的韵味更加曼妙。一次拜访开始画了一个圈，把所有人归纳在一起，女作家和女演员之间亲密、疏远的情感关系而诞生一部电影，最后的彩色片段真的是爱意满满。这部电影里洪尚秀写人物关系的功力太厉害，偶遇的导演、书店的故人、喝酒的诗人每一次偶遇都很精彩。从起初对洪电影的无感，觉得简单、无聊到如今着迷、享受，愈发期待每年一次的洪尚秀小品了。
真的是小说家的电影，没有太多技巧，只有最真实，最朴素的记录，观察每个人物手上的小动作是我观看本片最有趣的地方！
和《在你面前》几乎一样的结构，在重逢与新识中，一个女人回到自己的过往，想用电影拍摄下此刻的生活，直至电影和生活再无区别。故事最后会告诉你，其实这部电影本身即是她完成的作品。片尾金敏喜捧花的一场，是所有作品中见过最真的情感流露。
强忍着看完了，黑白画面有必要吗，字幕和画面融为一体，看不清楚，又全是坐而论道的对话，心里一直催促要不要换个让字幕清晰点的场景。太把这片当回事，就被洪尚秀愚弄了，从来不觉得洪尚秀聪明，有时运气好能出个可看的，只佩服他的一以贯之的对金敏喜的赞美和热爱，和固执的无构思拍法到底。简而言之，影迷认可洪了，他拍得再水也有人绞尽脑汁过度阐释。好比金敏喜本来就一面善之人，你认可她了，就好像她是你熟人还是朋友了，怎么看都好看。但这部片子里，她的脸肿了。她在《独自在海边的夜晚》和《克莱尔的相机里》里真是很美和耐看的。洪尚秀大多数片子里对她的定位都是天真的傻大姐设定，实则什么都了然于心，我觉得她应该能诠释些更复杂的角色，接点别的活。不过谢谢小朋友传递给我的资源。
不是记录，却生发出无限的真实。洪-金的婚礼在过曝的黑白中冲洗出彩色，是属于影像的温柔。
这几年洪常秀在柏林拿奖的电影越发靠近生活，也越发真实，我们甚至可以透过这些年电影了解导演的想法和导演的生活。相对于中期理想化地创作，现在更加化有形于无形。
《引见》《在你面前》《小说家的电影》，说实话连着三部，实在让人产生了审美疲劳，甚至略微有厌烦感。翻来覆去那么几句台词，导演、演员、诗人、制片人、小说家等等等等各路文艺工作者一边走着、站着、坐着、喝着一边商业互吹，“我是你的粉丝，见到你真荣幸”“你的作品实在太有魅力了”“你一定能写出、拍出、演出更好地作品的”balabalabala，真是越听越不是滋味。还好这片子还能看看金敏喜，洪常秀我是看够了。
“天色尚早，但是很快就会暗下来。趁着白日漫漫，我们一起去散步”。捧着花哼着歌的金敏喜像个天真无邪的小女孩。“我爱你”。“我也爱你。”
不要在平凡的琐事中寻找深刻意义。 结尾金敏喜像是在参加一个人的婚礼，自己的婚礼。
这部洪常秀看的真舒服
算是这几年来洪尚秀最轻松的作品了。公园散步借小说家之口说出最想说的话，小说家完成拍电影的梦想，一天之中见完老友，完成拍片却没能直接面对作品。彩色部分回到现实，现实的甜好过虚构的甜嘛？
越发炉火纯青的创作，真实世界的美丽如此简单地显露。
每次我都发誓不再看洪常秀了，然后每次还是又看了，实在是抵不住金敏喜的诱惑， my bad.
洪导再一部借characters之口表达自己想说的一切，这部更甚，从拍电影心路历程到生活观，再到大家围在一起对着金敏喜创作，明赞她的纯真，暗赞她是灵感之源…以及那个从未露面的金敏喜的丈夫…最后干脆直接凝视摄像机互道爱意，太不像个正经导演了！但是最后还是被满是爱意的镜头打动哭了！讨厌~( ´•︵•` )~
一部東亞人生感悟的話癆電影，先要對生活腳踏實地去體驗擁抱熱愛，才能在專注的事業上免除後顧之憂，而不是反之亦然，逃避之旅始終無法填充空虛空洞空心，當然，能有志同道合、三觀相似的人對話溝通協攜，那就更要感激涕零了。導演的私貨太多了，簡直把金敏喜拍成了仙女了，狗糧誰不愛呀？
但从作者史而言，未免有些大打“场外”牌之意了，结构性处理得更加微妙但也意味着削弱了影像本身的美学风格，以至于粗糙再次凸现了洪尚秀金敏喜“场外”的特性。
22/6/24：洪导为了敏喜再也不猥琐了！不惜打破结构的彩色片尾随便怎么理解，我希望洪导的电影一直保持独立的恬静下去。
接着《在你面前》而来的这部“小说家”的电影（那么究竟是Novelist还是Auteur呢？是小说家俊熙还是洪自己呢？）就好像是对于之前“支离破碎”的李慧英所扮演的另一个veteran角色的补救；cast到如今这组演员的浑然天成已经超过了评论能够作出的评论；徐永嬅姐姐胖了好可爱！
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