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.
好一句“回忆在，人就在”，压抑隐忍的90分钟终于等来海边冲破悲痛的情感释放，却也如此短暂又即刻上路，结尾收手稍慢，演技BGM完美，沉浸体验式镜头语言。满分。
片尾字卡一出我就泪崩了 “献给所有不得不离开的人 我们路上见”
赵婷真的不一样，她找到了属于自己独特的叙事方式，这种风格让人一瞬间感觉电影贴的现实世界特别近，下一瞬间又感觉电影早已击穿了现实世界，但细细回想两者又有一些暧昧存在，不近不远，她从《骑士》的尝试到现在的锋芒早已站稳了好莱坞，她不学习谁，她不继承谁，她就是她自己。
女主角的困境很像当下的普通美国人，抗风险的能力太弱了，一场变故下来，到最后只能是一无所有。爱人去世了，房子没有了，退休金也不够用，又不想寄人篱下，只能靠四处打短工来保证生存，所以她除了在路上漂泊，还能又什么选择呢
很喜欢斯万基的故事。整体平得让人流泪，生活的疼痛根本无需刻意再去制造什么雪上加霜的冲突和意外，所有伤痕就那样无声无息地刻在身体上，人无所依，但是情感终究有所附丽。个体视角是对于丧失之痛的疗愈，群体视角是对于消费社会的反抗，“在路上“看似洒脱，其实还是夹杂了不得已而为之的无奈。🔥了很长一段时间的片子，不知道是不是因为拍了他们不愿意拍的东西。（先看了一遍，大银幕“无依”之感应该会有很好的体验，期待引进。）
1.整体基调更偏是枝裕和式的日式公路片，这倒是比较奇妙的结合，拿着日式的镜头拍美国的荒蛮之地，首先不要太带着矫情的心态去看吧，但最近一个很强的感受是，大多数人还比我更矫情；2.活着是为了讲述，为了离开的人，同类型题材一如海曼，情感总归是淡淡的，达不到海曼的那种痛如骨髓的切肤之痛，近两个小时的时间里，生活与自然的边界迷糊，其实是西方的某种窗口，好几段重复上路的镜头，车尾像一个救护车，但我觉得这几段强调失去了意义，并没有在整片结构里起到心境变化之类的作用，主角要面对的，是无休止上路的话，对大家来说，打了好几拳没有打到肉挺难受。整体可以有7.6分，归结于，这种气质的片子，或许只有亚洲人能拿捏得住。
「當你在穿山越嶺的另一邊 我在孤獨的路上沒有盡頭」
「獻給所有不得不分別的人。路上再見。See you down the road.」我們是旅人，是某地的旅人，是彼此人生的旅人，是社會環境的旅人，是大自然的旅人，是宇宙和世界的旅人。萍水相逢浪跡天地，正因如此溫柔相待。同時也用歸宿來對照流浪，用執念來對照淡然。不得不面對、接受離別，而追逐讚頌的仍是永不完結的絢爛夏天。再看這樣的美國荒野公路片，就越覺得自己「是被城市、尤其是多彩便捷的香港寵壞」。一邊看一邊覺得好愛配樂，看endroll居然是Ludovico Einaudi！
7.1 穷山恶水短镜头，所有场景都快得可怕，剪辑彷如害了连贯动作恐惧症，大半部电影的镜头都像是过渡镜头，而且还要念诗秀台词……
虽然和克隆和个体之间达成了和解，也和自己和解，但是就算有百分之九十九的相似，也有一些细微的改变，比如爱狗变成怕狗，更多的还有什么都是未知的，甚至一些我们自己都不知道的，就是有这些存在，才让个体独特，所以再像也不是那个人了。
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两个场景感触深刻：斯万基去世前对女主说自己时日无多，对人生的各种经历已经心满意足，而过年回家我第一次听到外公说到类似的话；女主回到旧房子，让我想到这次春节我也回到小学五年级以前住的房子，很多人家的窗户还是20年前的样子。
喜欢Fern，好久没看到这样喜欢的美国电影了，上一次大概是《into the wild》
技艺成熟、情绪冷静自持又暗流涌动，选择的流浪和宿命的选择，人各有命，挺好的。不过令我好奇的是，导演如何能与这样的群体共情，以及十几岁以后的再社会化能够这样彻底地去掉原本的历史文化传统的影响。
See you down the road. 这也算是公路片吧，镜头风格好喜欢。孤独并伴随着孤独共生，不停下脚步，至少是我会愿意选择的生活方式。（和我娘一起看的，她看完就完全无感…毕竟只有我这样的性格会恨不得远离固定环境天天在路上
这片透出来的悲伤和海边的曼彻斯特有点像，而我更能看懂后者的悲伤。说不上太喜欢，但挺遗憾因为愚蠢的原因而不能在国内上映。每年都有大量制作精良、远不如这部优秀，但也颇有亮点的电影上映，而我们在电影院却只能看那三两部密钥延长一次又一次档期长达两三个月的不断刷新世界影史票房纪录的国内片，以及部分已经上映十几年、政治上正确、又已经得到市场检验的国外片，更让人遗憾。从书本以及电影里了解到的美国人，注重与他人的联系似乎更甚于所谓集体主义的中国人，他们甚至不能独自打保龄。
劳作，风野，感怀，生的尊严，选择的自由，这些为人的本质，或者说earthship，终要比商业化的暴力冲突和冷嘲热讽的小聪明恒久。这个赵姓姑娘的距离这么远又这么近，你不想太骄傲，也不能太警惕，更不能妒恨，因为她所代表的希望和传递的关怀属于每个人，从作茧自缚的民族狂热者到一心想拿绿卡的文科留学生。只是我们的语言里，敏感依然有贬义，empathy还没有对等的词汇。
看起来很舒服，隐隐之中有一股说不出来的味道。
轻剧情的电影，只是路上琐琐碎碎的事情，但是那种平静下的又自由又孤独的感觉能一下子把人攫住，是非常难得的观影体验
感觉没有必要拍电影，这题材做一个多媒体展览啥的没准信息量能充实点，挖掘能深入点，会更有趣呢。
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