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.
极简舞台风格 光影是亮点 但整体的风格化甚至不如15年库泽尔那部《麦克白》 表演上科恩嫂比华盛顿表现的好 当然 还是跟人物角色有关 麦克白夫人的确是这个故事中最有趣的存在
十分惊喜！充满新意的经典改编。有一点先锋艺术的感觉。极简的风格却营造出了阴沉压抑的氛围。服装、布景、光线都很到位。
就算在A24的量产风格里也不算优质作品吧。摄影打光是很美，可场景和表演太割裂了，完全是各演各的搭不上戏。难受，不属于我想看的电影，或者应该说它哪里像电影了！
又是一部影像美学大于一切的电影，极简风格忠实还原了莎士比亚的文本，摄影布景灯光令人叹为观止。尤其对女巫、寓言、鬼魅、梦幻等超现实奇观的表现，又cult又诡谲，又伯格曼又黑泽明。
摄影美术服化道和表演都是顶级的水准，为颁奖礼而生的那类电影。肯定不难看，但没啥感觉。
刚好和前阵子的罗南的话剧版本作对比，显然话剧版为罗南做了很多的改编，加了不少戏份，电影版在奇幻的改编上加了很多力度。打光真是一绝，线条也是极简，视觉上非常舒服。但是麦克多蒙德的戏份也太少了哇！真的，恶女还得是由老戏骨来演，才能有那种味道
将莎翁的剧作用电影镜头语言呈现出来，摄影非常棒。莎翁的剧作思想之深刻令人叹服
有点吃惊，莎士比亚到今天仍然有旺盛的生命力。看了半个小时，竟然被深度的吸引了。
简洁主义的布景、极为考究的台词、充满张力的表演、自成一体的美学，使得影片具有浓厚的舞台剧色彩。这也不同于科恩兄弟以往的作品，或许是由于乔尔·科恩单独执导本片，我更愿将这部电影视为其“单飞”后的实验作品。
布景和转场非常棒抢眼 女巫的表演起鸡皮疙瘩。
熬過前半段，後半段竟然不少能聽懂了⋯⋯黑白畫面與光影太厲害，這就是戲劇的魅力嗎
领略莎翁文字之美，请不要去影院啃生肉，至少配台词字幕。
纯粹在我审美范围内的作品，绝美cinematography
剧作非常舞台化，影像风格突出，演技都在线。给一星完全是因为一千年前的苏格兰国王不可能是黑人。
表现主义&极简风格。
简洁主义的布景、极为考究的台词、充满张力的表演、自成一体的美学，使得影片具有浓厚的舞台剧色彩。这也不同于科恩兄弟以往的作品，或许是由于乔尔·科恩单独执导本片，我更愿将这部电影视为其“单飞”后的实验作品。
当万千黑鸦从路边飞过，就象征新一轮的杀伐又将开始。由欲望勾出的自我，往往会在邪恶之中印证自己的本我。极简主义的舞台剧式风格，黑白影调配合小画幅的设置，导演几乎将所有的视点都聚焦在人物的表演之中。对于莎士比亚的麦克白解读有很多，对于这种影像改编往往要加入作者性才会不落俗套，他将麦克白的欲望归结于自我的反叛和自省，利用这种具有规律的人性思考来体现无常的道德困境，只是表演和摄影太过亮眼，让人总觉得顾此失彼…（真的觉得表演性奖项全给这部作品也不为过）
再次叹服他们每一版麦克白都好绝活！
演技最好的麦克白夫妇。摄影真的是太绝了！太绝了！太绝了！
如果剥去了莎翁的名号，这也就是一个普通的寓言故事，如果再除去科恩卖力表现的镜头，这也就是个一无是处的寓言故事
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