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.
每看一强行凹出了情节故事线，英国人钟爱的happy ending
电影版2比1要好很多，更完整。没有硬凹剧情，唐顿独有的硬核毒舌台词也又回来了。看到最后感受到这次真的是告别了，不会再有续集了。有些欣慰，真不愿意眼看着它烂，但是也有点难过，要是时不常能看一次这热热闹闹幸幸福福的一大家子，也挺开心的。
现实向我反复确认的是 时间是抓不住的 人会老也会死 没有什么会永垂不朽 我必须要直面这个现实 你看 老奶奶走了 其它人也都老了 我不也是吗
不得不说管家艳福齐天，每集都能找到好对象，这次还攀上了好莱坞明星
印象深刻的一幕是加菲拥抱女友时手指轻敲女友的后背，不要爱上艺术家，他会汲取你生命的能量和养分豢养他的作品。
创作者真的就是一句表扬都是动力，不需要他人认可的创作者说不存在的，抱着女朋友想着创作那一幕真的很灵，这个人，很立体。
选几个喜闻乐见的热门议题+几首好听的歌，很生硬，很无聊，有种《娱乐无极限X音乐不断》的感觉。
更明白滴答滴答嘣，明白心底倒数的走针声。
你看看 其实大家都有年龄焦虑 但是最后我们发现 光焦虑没有用 还是踏踏实实积累输出 最后我们可能赶不上烟花绽放 但也算是蜡炬成灰了
其实不如说是一部加菲的粉丝献礼片，什么都有。搞艺术的人的故事总是大同小异，总是离不开和生活中的贫穷、死生病痛较劲，总是不免在爱中错失，总是会选择放弃理想化而向商业屈服。Rent那种风格一直是我不太喜欢的，所以无法全情投入。倒还是频频戳中了。
和Whiplash之间差100个La La Land
乔纳森也是幸运的，有流星划过夜空的绚烂。
影片选择结束于主角30岁生日晚会上蛋糕蜡烛前的一个笑脸，而随后的五年至逝于成名作登台前夕的信息留给了旁白。而这五年，必有他心路的转变、心理的冲突，这些恰恰才是我最想看的啊。无奈影片为了塞进更多的歌舞堆料，将看似充满巧思的叙事主线敲得稀碎，而最终未能讲好一个完整的故事。
电影的剪辑和镜头切换是极致。音乐不错但是作为音乐电影来说的确偏弱。
所谓理想，是没入水中也要浮现的线谱与诗行；所谓遗憾，是高朋满座时的无奈与惆怅。生命苦短，不容为一切绚烂驻足，挚爱凝为朱砂痣，去见证下一部剧作的启航。掌声留予身后，光阴逝者如斯，此生便是要把笑泪苦涩灌进心里，再用灵魂滋养出一朵永不凋谢的花。
【6分】我理解林曼威的热情，但我感受不到。打动我的是真实的Jonathan本人，而非电影里呈现出来的角色。明明是很好的素材，但讲述的角度和方式都太一般了。作为音乐电影，音乐不出彩真的是致命问题，全片听下来，居然只有Bohemia一曲足够优秀。旋律和剧情的割裂感太强了，无法带动情绪。冗余的信息太多，真的没必要每隔20分钟就强调一次running out of time，台词多且尴尬，总感觉不像在看电影，像在看一个神经质的林曼威本人碎碎念。传记电影的通病依旧适用：配角们真的都是“配合”的存在，但在本片中，蜻蜓点水般的人物刻画甚至不能起到起码的突出主角作用。能感觉到加菲有在很努力地突破自己，但最终的表演效果也就是无功无过。真要和La La Land对比，那绝对是被吊打的程度。
而那些强行想要扣题和拔高立意的部分，也因整体影像感的缺失而失效。
片尾的影像比电影更打动人，其实就能说明电影不够成功，加菲在很多方面演的都很好，但对比片尾就很明显的没演出来一个天才应有的形象。不过胜在歌好听，且改编的恰到好处，否则就真的是一部非常平庸的作品
Movie of the year. A blessing for any theatre/musical lover or idealist. Story about 90s, Broadway, New York, creativity, love, fear, time, and life. Don’t mind Lin’s rusty directing, the emotions are so raw. R.I.P. Stephen Sondheim, who passed away just after the release of this film. We all have, and will always have a song unsung.
作为传记片来说，形体和表达方式其实非常一般，加菲尽最大的能力在复刻和诠释乔纳森·拉森的半生。胜在情感真挚和每一首音乐都很好听。从默默无名再到生活撂倒，见证一个一个朋友的离去，巨大的声音摧毁了他。加菲的表演很好，好几场戏有闪光。更多的情况我会觉得乔纳森的一生就像胡波，他们都是被锯断腿的大象，一个是无奈而死，后则是无奈而生。音乐电影的魅力就是享受当下，活在当下，足矣。/记忆衰退，毫无感觉。
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