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.
一个时代快要落幕。那么热闹的感觉，恍如隔世。
“用爱发电意难平”，创作大概率是这个世界上性价比最低的事情。没有所谓的一分耕耘一分收获。你以为创新是魅力四射的事情——但其实人们，或是说商业眼光，从来比你想象中要守旧传统。
网飞能不能别拍伪纪实片了，开头那个N一闪过接下来两个小时只要一想到这东西在消费我的同情心和价值取向就会心理不适
熟悉的人看着亲切，可是一个个都无法掩藏的变老，唏嘘
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如果说Company是30岁群体的情感焦虑，TTB则像要补足他们的职业焦虑——在我看来他们来自于同一类人。必须要赞叹LMM的导演处女秀，把这部作品做音乐电影其实很容易变成煽情MV，但是ONE MAN SHOW式的旁白穿插，起到了一定的调和作用，最终也可以哀而不伤。若说不足可能是前边有点细碎，后半程更流畅情绪也更浓烈，整体有点过盛。加菲和演员们的在线不多吹了，SUNDAY的大合唱很有百老汇重聚的感动。最终最终一定要说每吹Jonathan Larson或者LMM都会感叹桑爷是永远的神，我相信他们所做也是为了证明自己的偶像足够伟大，一切成就皆是向光的结果。
漂亮的游泳池 source of inspiration！
LMM作为宽街新贵的人脉大展览（最直白的就是sunday餐厅曲的cameo：LMM自己以及他的班底，算是桑爷那儿来的Bernadette Peters和Chita Rivera和André De Shields，我个人看到倍感惊喜的Joel Grey，等等），整体效果无限类似（被按摩师虚假安利给LMM的）加菲的音乐剧电影表现：架势能唬人。（加菲起初的表演实在太像天使在美国时的prior了）（属于LMM和加菲的motif/幽灵船涟漪在片中不停浮现）（对他俩有滤镜，以及在电影中途迅速去买了rent 25周年farewell tour的票，再以及公寓party的bgm有石玫瑰的i wanna be adored，所以给四星）
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。
恐惧还是爱？改变世界！行动远远胜于言语！——
观影时不会因拍摄制作不满意而出戏，还能从中收获好些惊喜，这种情况于我而言是“可望不可求”的，而最近看的电影最满足我这方面需求的一部非《倒数时刻》莫属了：1.以脱口秀的形式当旁白展开叙事还挺少见；2.很喜欢“公寓大楼”的歌舞段落，让我找到当初看《爱乐之城》的奇妙感觉，而后加菲自弹自唱《Why》也让我联想到石头姐唱《Audition (The Fools Who Dream)》的情节，不过音乐的悦耳度与故事的代入感于我还是不及《爱乐之城》；3.影片 55:10 男女朋友吵架与舞台表演歌曲来回跳切的剪辑方式挺让我眼前一亮，而后 90:24 Jon追溯他与同志好友的回忆也采用类似的剪辑手法；4.没能在电影院观影有点遗憾；5.《身在高地》《蜜熊的音乐奇旅》《倒数时刻》《魔法满屋》，给2021年新晋“劳模哥”林-曼努尔·米兰达点个赞！希望此片明年奥斯卡奖能有所收获！
多一星还是给情怀，这年头，好像也就这值钱了。就这种拍法，大概可以一直无止尽地拍下去。各种完美大结局，完美到甚至连老太太的过世都理所应当。可我还是怀念大表哥呀～～～
电影只在结尾提了一句RENT，甚至一首RENT的原声都没出现，但是从头到尾都是RENT的影子和故事，电影本身只值三星，但是因为RENT所以值五星，也正是这部电影，终于有那么点懂RENT了，传奇即传奇本身。
一流作家的二流作品，可以想象当年David Auburn重写本剧时调整故事线的难度，三个主角的视角切换里若隐若现的Sondheim才是整个故事的芯，这个剧是属于Larson的Sunday in the Park with George！一定好好赚钱，然后去finance我表达欲爆炸的朋友们！
精神唐顿家人。甚至比1还好。南法别墅和庄园电影双线，没想到的剧情安排。还是一如既往地哭着笑着看完全剧，完全忘了身在何处，觉得剧中人就是现在的身边的而不是一百年前的，每一个人物的悲喜都强烈共鸣。
是一部让人时刻保持热泪盈眶的音乐传记片，用音乐剧讲音乐剧作家乔纳森·拉森30岁前倒数一个星期，有困厄中的真诚，有挣扎里的决绝，有在现实的错愕和梦想的触不可及之间摇摆不定的真实，还有源于生活碎片的情绪堆叠出的强大感染力，无论哪种程度都令人动容。LMM在保留自身音乐剧风格的同时，也能看出视听上借鉴了鲍勃·福斯，将音乐蒙太奇运用得尤为出色，尤其是中段那首I feel bad That you feel bad，配合着拉森与女友矛盾爆发的情节，是我心目中的MVP最佳段落。加菲的表演有一种震撼人心的真诚力量，他的那双大眼睛总是饱含热泪，虽然唱功不如专业歌手，但这种扑面而来的真诚太容易引起共鸣了。
观影时不会因拍摄制作不满意而出戏，还能从中收获好些惊喜，这种情况于我而言是“可望不可求”的，而最近看的电影最满足我这方面需求的一部非《倒数时刻》莫属了：1.以脱口秀的形式当旁白展开叙事还挺少见；2.很喜欢“公寓大楼”的歌舞段落，让我找到当初看《爱乐之城》的奇妙感觉，而后加菲自弹自唱《Why》也让我联想到石头姐唱《Audition (The Fools Who Dream)》的情节，不过音乐的悦耳度与故事的代入感于我还是不及《爱乐之城》；3.影片 55:10 男女朋友吵架与舞台表演歌曲来回跳切的剪辑方式挺让我眼前一亮，而后 90:24 Jon追溯他与同志好友的回忆也采用类似的剪辑手法；4.没能在电影院观影有点遗憾；5.《身在高地》《蜜熊的音乐奇旅》《倒数时刻》《魔法满屋》，给2021年新晋“劳模哥”林-曼努尔·米兰达点个赞！希望此片明年奥斯卡奖能有所收获！
仆人和主人的等级越来越模糊，可以说是一个命运相系的big family，戏里戏外，生老病死，在残酷的世界尽量幸福是真谛。
半自传式呈现音乐剧作家的艺术人生。故事和音乐都不太出色。
爱乐之城x横道世之介x火花…的感觉，没想到有一天能看到这种融合
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