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.
我愿意一遍一遍，不厌其烦，生生世世和你一起遭遇百千万劫。像最温柔的那个，地藏王菩萨，共复一形、涕泪哀恋。
在天马行空的想象和炫目的剪辑包装下，东亚家庭内核把握得很精准，为杨紫琼开心。爸爸那句“如果有来生，我还是会选择跟你一起，报税、开洗衣店”很戳泪点，早期华人赴美做的也就是洗衣工这些劳力工种，涵盖华裔三代人（父亲、夫妻、女儿）面貌的全宇宙。
我们固执地妄图逃离母亲并不断说服她去过好自己的人生，她却控制不住自己地拼命要关注我们。一切从我们诞生于世的那一刻开始无法扭转，变成无限循环的长期伤痛。hello，mom。bye，mom。
脑洞不可思议；就算我们只是石头，就算被挂在树上，我也要在你身边
我们固执地妄图逃离母亲并不断说服她去过好自己的人生，她却控制不住自己地拼命要关注我们。一切从我们诞生于世的那一刻开始无法扭转，变成无限循环的长期伤痛。hello，mom。bye，mom。
不好看，甚至觉得无聊，对移民题材无感，对超级英雄无感，那个丈夫一讲普通话就像个尖声细嗓的公公，实在是emmm
当然，这片子也给众多文艺逼工作者一个启示：文艺不是装逼，文艺也需要落地。接地气的东西，才是最浪漫的。
俩哥们儿是真的很想拍漫威吧，女儿本质上就是一个灭霸，无非穿了一层亚裔的人皮，几个场景剪来剪去，其实就是把奇异博士的洞开在耳朵上了。中段真是无聊到爆炸，以至于结尾都能接受了。
我不行了，从“How could you do this so easily”（爸爸丢弃女儿）开始泪点一个接着一个。无字幕可能丢失了一些信息，但不影响感觉到的天才和价值观冲撞后的真正融合。
3.剧作非常完美。符合剧作结构的前提下，也让故事各个元素和步骤恰当地融合起来了，从而没那么流于表面。
就像官方中文片名一样，天马行空，脑洞非常大，无厘头，但又讲了一个何为爱的故事。居然有两段拉拉恋情！杨姐演技厉害
至少，完全对得起“天马行空”这个四个大字。我对于华人脸孔担纲洋人的电影这事的兴奋度不会高于看到一部出色的华语电影，但我们扪心自问，我们办得到吗？搁下技术性层面，就全面包容度而言，100年都达不到。角色可以拿着大型的Dildo当武器，巨大的肛塞可以用来戏谑，Lesbian的亲密亲吻可以自然而然，哪怕略微血腥的暴力美学我们都看不到了，所以我们凭什么自大地觉得人家拍一部电影是会想要“与遥远的东方相关”呢？人家压根就不在意！因为他们知道自己的作品注定不会被大多数中国人看到。
最喜欢悬崖上那段对话和王家卫滤镜下街角歌星角色和丈夫的对白。从刚开始开始，每个人就都代表一个尽头。生活冗杂的、光鲜耀眼的、底层的、怪诞的、哲理的、庸碌的都都差不多守恒的难过和开心。
电影拍的眼花缭乱，还不就是老掉牙的美式合家欢。台词太多显得苍白，炫技式剪辑不知所云，故事撑不起野心，感情渲染太突兀，表现过度最后就是虎头蛇尾，一部合格的快餐电影，看到一半就甚是疲惫。
此外补一句，美国华裔的故事是美国人的故事，和东亚家庭文化关系也不大。
But success it never comes
这部电影是21世纪版的《你一生的故事》有一种编剧把姜ted的小说重新写了一遍的感觉。要说有什么深意嘛，大概就是杜顺大师在《五教止观》中写的：“童子进入楼阁发现里面都是珠光宝镜，宝珠把宇宙精神之光普照出来，消灭宇宙一切黑暗，一切障碍。” #一即一切#
这种片能写出一大堆文字影评的人是多么主旋律 。什么东亚家庭最美和解，什么母女隔阂伤痕，向往虚无的女儿，存在主义危机？社会学名词谁说得多谁就赢吗？逼出这些陈词滥调简直是影评界的申论。
如此浪漫、恢弘、璀璨且花哨到极点的拍法儿，辐射的话题内容却如此稀薄。没有新的视角，没有新的问题，没有新的解法，没有新的感动。
用宇宙来解决家庭问题，有前卫感，也有形而上的深度，但真的绕太大圈子了。感觉有点儿套大马拉小车。
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