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.
4.5 - 在滨口的电影里生活总是不可捉摸地流动，一些明显的误会是技巧，但此后的湍流似乎没有规律，随着人性的明暗而跃动。最喜欢的是第二段，一种跃然纸上的情色，不可言说的欲望在毫无起伏的阅读里悄悄滋长，在反复进退之间打破了第四面墙，将文学、电影和角色/观众的想象混合在一起，成为非常高级的调情和暧昧。始终开着的门也成为对欲望的压制和反向挑逗，成为这场「情欲戏」最不落俗套的道具。第一段和第三段实际上也感触颇深，当我们意外由命运的一个位置挪到另一个事先没有想过的位置，对于命运的观看和选择也因此出现超越本我的角度，不一定要试图辨清哪一个才是「我」，而是发现与直视「我」的多种可能性。
3 终于知道了自己角色的名字 开心地薄薄地拥抱在一起
偶然的同义词是奇遇，当其与想象结合的时刻是戏剧舞台的发生学，包含着观众与事件真实的奇遇和戏剧演员之间虚假的奇遇。奇遇也是情色的前戏，色情录像的力比多经济学。滨口龙介的三部短片并没有掩盖剧情的高度设计感，而是通过自反将其设计为了一个“反情色”，也就是在前两个故事之中沉默的第三主体之权力并不通向欲望，而是通向对剧场空间的重新乞灵，在人们的话语交换中要么进行着某种斗技，要么将自己装配为一个诱惑/复仇的危险机器，值得一提的是，在这些故事中，强度人物总是通过一个Zoom in/out或二者兼有的状态中耗尽自我的一切残余，而滨口则通过电影机制魔幻地将决定性时刻略去，在时间跨度中衰变为一个创伤—事件。
A / 不免让人与洪进行比较，但滨口龙介构建的场景从不需要费力进入，而是彻底敞开，观看即如同在场，与过往或日常生活形成共振，而这一切所倚赖的便是“偶然与想象”的魔力时刻。
③虚实生气
最喜欢第三个短片再来一次。
男【呆，不知道，气！，不上你当！，你有病逼我爱你，绷不住了 爱你！，笑死 要吐了，你坦诚 值得信赖，努力理解你不伤己，退缩】
对白写得太好了，丝丝入扣的逻辑和细节。三首美妙的练习曲。
这不就是洪尚秀？把生活中的偶然拆解成了对话，但却没有那么小品。最喜欢第三个故事，只有女性才会在意外的错误面前制造这样一份浪漫吧。
#资料馆跨年
纯粹的想象，接近的想象，互相满足的想象
精彩，可以看成是后疫情时代的三则寓言，共同点是都在讲埋藏或压抑在内心深处的情感，力量层层递进。第一则侧重剧力，第二则侧重技法，第三则将力量推到顶点（尘封已久的感情爆发最强大的力量。进行到角色扮演部分是本片的绝佳Magic时刻，大题小题一起点，力透纸背）。它们是三则寓言，也可以是一则寓言，还可以是现实世界的某种缩影。也因此我们看到每个寓言故事里的人们表面上在不断地说话、交流，实则完全处于失语状态（好似戴着面具的假人，卡萨维蒂从未显得如此重要），迷失在自身所处的尴尬境地里，一如当下的我们，看上去已然恢复到正常生活，其实这层口罩早已成为我们的交流屏障，语言、思想以及太多重要的东西被无情地阻隔。时过境迁，一切都回不去了。
三星半。因为全程叨逼叨让人生出还不如去看小说的烦躁感，但三场对话又如侯麦般精妙，让人觉得美好，动人，讽刺，乃至惊心动魄。
滨口龙介的命题作文，访谈中曾提及现实与超现实的结合，而这种魔力现实主义在这部影片里达到了高潮——尤其是最初的章节《魔力》，其奇诡的日常视角令人想起日本影像文化里那种「日常中的惊奇」。偶然拥有想象般的神奇力量，想象也可在偶然的瞬间以某种形态实现。
时间慢慢地摧毁了我……文本堪称精妙绝伦……滨口龙介怕不真是霓虹影坛紫微星？！
年度十佳。滨口龙介的故事相对于侯与洪来说更具有女性意识。换而言之，侯麦讲男与女，洪讲男人，滨口龙介讲女人。这背后的难度是，人物心理的复杂如何通过对话轻盈呈现，四两拨千斤的电影永远迷人。
最后一个故事好温暖啊，如果没有这个段落，整部影片在我看来或许只能打3颗星。
虽然美子的冲动或冷静都来得如此强烈，但当她一个人陷入自我、卸下伪装的时候，似乎才能让人感到她的内心，那里充满了对世界的不确定和不信任。
滨口还是一个很擅长“拿来”的导演，因此很多技巧和效果会令人感到熟悉甚至有些生涩——因为还在实验过程中，他人痕迹犹在，情境却已不同。洪常秀、侯麦、里维特、黑泽清……这部里的许多人物正面镜头正反打镜头和奥利维拉/尤金·格林也是相通的。夸太多滨口如何“电影”，这部其实远更“文学”了，激情与想象的接飞盘游戏，时间压缩连接的方式，换场景如换幕……不过坦白说，滨口能让我过电，但还是嫌他像魔术师没感情，只有门的女主角在五年后憔悴损，跳到了演绎之外。（最后一段两个演员感觉掉了）
4. Credit。閱讀空氣並販賣空氣的魔法師
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