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.
3.5 有些情节是能引起共鸣，但好多问题完全没有解决，中国家庭那种父母权力压制，依旧需要孩子去做出让步。
华语区青春家庭伦理片标配都是打孩子吗。。。文化冲突部分太符号化了，我倒宁愿看一家子好好吵架，不过well，不懂得好好吵架也算是华语区亲子关系集大成体现了
有点滥情，但胜在细节真实、细腻～所以为何林嘉欣这么强的演技实力竟然没有让她到达华语演员的顶端位置？方郁婷不用讲了，她这种类型的演员在成年女演员中都实在很缺～
它远算不上完美的电影，移民和SARS的背景都用得不算好，但换一个角度，背景只是背景，它是生活中必然面对的变化与挫折，一个家庭如何处理，如何面对，如何和解才是这部电影真正想讲的东西，它不算好，但它太真实了，太像会发生在我们家中的事情，而电影在一个稍微失真的和解中戛然而止。但，结束了吗？不，生活仍会继续，挫折与变化是人生永难回避的境况，怎么办？4星。
单调却真诚，倾注了沉甸甸的生命体验，刻骨铭心。每一次争吵后混杂着温情和痛苦的余震，对身边人乃至对自己的恨意的反复回荡，当这些真实可感甚至能唤醒记忆的情感的时候，再多技巧都显得多余。
故事和立意都太陈旧了。美国梦的破碎杨德昌1985年的《青梅竹马》就已经说尽了。凑疫情也十分牵强，没带来什么思考。
那时候台商在大陆还很吃香，东莞正在世界工厂的高峰。而台湾本岛却是暮气沉沉。人望高处，所以丈夫想去大陆赚钱。今天很多台厂已经转移到东南亚尤其越南。
女儿芳婷最恨母亲之处，不是母亲一厢情愿地把还在进行文化认同阶段的她带到美国，而后又不由分说地被现实击败，把她拽回母语之地任由适应，而是母亲不肯好好活着，母亲就要死了，恨一个人总比爱一个人容易。
很好哭很好哭，足矣。妹妹的話讓人心碎，不加修飾也不隱藏。流暢，不造作，也不貪心，結局的timing很好。演講稿的內容也不重要了。以及體罰真的很噁心。
关于疫情的作品，台湾连续两个，还是不同时期，不同程度的，有一种呼应，更是一种对比。片中呈现出鲜明的大陆台湾文化同宗性，然而这一种相似性令人喉咙堵塞，心惊胆颤。中式教育的权威性、压抑性弊端明显，它让小孩害怕、畏惧、胆怯，不能表达自己内心，不快乐，大人说什么是什么，父母说什么是什么，老师说什么是什么，便于塑造与管理的同时，也失去了创造与豁达。这一家人，就是这种文化的缩影。听这家人说话的方式太难受了，通篇压抑，也来源于自己儿时的感受记忆，不想接触，一分一秒，都排斥。主人公的境遇，最初想起的是《小花的味增汤》，但观感，实在是两个极端。
最难得的是导演的真诚，勇敢面对当时自己对母亲的残忍和逃避，并且细致耐心地梳理出来呈现给观众，但整体看完还是觉得少了一点什么，剧本有点单薄？
# 澳门银河 2022.03.01
林嘉欣好会演。小演员非常赞。但是有几场戏处理得不好，最遗憾的几场是在小女儿入院隔离到被通知只是普通肺炎这期间的故事，这部分是整部电影的高潮，也是解决家庭矛盾的关键所在，可惜的是故事的表现力很弱，形式也很单一，没有足够烘托出煎熬的气氛。如果能够将Sars这一线索强化，会把情绪堆叠得更好。
家的本质是摇摇欲坠，为了能不破碎的生活下去，要对外防御，势必向内就会封闭。里面的女孩和女儿下辈子想当一匹马，女人和妈妈下辈子想当男人，后来离开“家”无论去了哪里都容易回到原点。没有读出来的演讲稿很好，芳仪想套住她以为的splash哭着说please i need u，发现不肯屈服的它不就是自己，而自己不就是妈妈吗，哭着哭着就被迫明白了，演得很动人。
真的是《瀑布》的同题作文，疫情下的母女关系，只不过一个讲中产阶级跌落，一个讲文化隔阂，表演很好，偶有零星的感动，但平庸的视听输给钟孟宏太正常了。
如果我是这位妈妈，我不知道自己还能不能活得下去。年轻和美国梦破碎，健康与容颜凋零，爱情与婚姻岌岌，母女亲情相爱相杀，每一种关系都令人窒息，都是不能承受的重。
可以说十分的细腻了，不煽情的情况下把家庭成员之间的情感关系描绘的这么有看头，有矛盾有对立，也是彼此相爱的
生活又日常的细节看得还是很有感触，东亚家庭真的好难，女性更难。。不过整体都是片段，实质没有进展，爸爸说的“就是在逃避”想到《青梅竹马》，感觉还是比《瀑布》好的
三星半，一個下輩子想當男性的母親，和一個下輩子想投胎成馬的青春期少女，面對疾病、疫情、狹窄的住房空間、文化差異、校園體罰等等現實問題，必然導致不可避免的代際衝突。只是從女權主義的角度來看，這種女女的被迫成長，本質上還是男權社會帶來的潛在影響和傷害。另，本片主題和《瀑布》有點像，但作為長片處女作，明顯稍遜一籌。期待導演的下一部新作！加油！
少年困境+中年困境+女性困境，这个社会到底是牢笼还是向往？环境、地位，社群到底给人带来了什么？如果是我，我会像splash一样不愿屈服，还是乖乖套上缰绳？不知道，因为任何一种选择，所付出的代价都是不可挽回的。
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