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.
由疫情带来的经济危机是整部电影的背景，所有人都陷入一种离轨的困境，精神的失常与世界失序是交替行进的，但是路数有些老套。后半段渐入佳境，特别电视之后真的有蛇这一下很妙。
剧情和表演细腻，比阳光普照更加感同身受。特么贾静雯这样的女人，即便精神错乱了，只要不杀我，我愿有命就会抱着她。
就 很动人的一段母女的故事，青春期少女与妈妈的恶性关系，逼到极致后 母女关系身份对调，少女一夜长大，才发现她们其实只能依靠对方。各方面设计得挺巧妙的，看得出花了心思，很喜欢前半部分的惊悚元素，and贾静雯厉害的！
在新冠疫情之下单亲家庭的悲欢生活剪影，中产阶级的蜗牛壳并不比外卖盒硬多少，命途多舛人生难测，故事背景可谓与时俱进（结尾安排的突发事件亦是采用发生在去年的真实案件）。影片的演职人员团队几乎都是从《大佛普拉斯》、《阳光普照》、《同学麦娜丝》一直延续的班底，一群戏精本精你方唱罢我登场；无论是叙事还是表演，力求稳妥贴切、不刻意煽情、不用力过猛，比起人均几个凡尔赛的精致妆容正能量自信片要踏实许多。人家戴上口罩、只露双眼、全程素颜一样可以飙演技。“每个人都有难堪的过去，只是大小不同而已。而且，未来会怎样，也没有人知道。”“瀑布”是曾经的生活的崩塌、是深藏的执念的席卷、是破而后立的晓喻新生。“不要再问我你还好吗，我会想办法好起来。”栉风沐雨，玉汝于成，否极泰来，未来可期。主题曲陈珊妮《抉择》大赞。
贾静雯今年都48岁了，美人也老了，她在本片中演得太好了，素颜演出各种情绪，悲伤，紧张，忧郁，愤怒，像恐怖片女主角似的吓人。
摄影还是台湾最强，但拍女性人物总觉得抓不到痛点，或者说，痛苦仍流于形式。不知道是表演的原因还是剧作的关系。
很久没看到这样不洒狗血、关心人、理解人、关爱人，因而电影人也赢得其相应尊严感的华语电影了。题外话，没有居委会，没有人事档案加身的人生，哪怕遭遇很多苦难，还是可以随时从新开始的感觉。
瀑布轰鸣，不期而至，大到影响全球的时代洪流，小到思觉失调的个人脑海，唯有将接受与理解视为新的信念。明显“仁慈”太多的钟孟宏，为防疫时代的无望生活注入了太多圆满，即便以悬疑恐怖质感时刻渲染的蓝色绝望，令一切都像是思觉失调者臆想的空欢喜。
3.5/5，借用空间的营造来打造社会的隐喻，贾静雯岂止是演家庭女强人，更是一个被结构性城市靓丽流水线压迫至思想崩溃的小资中产，当她紧绷的神经稍有松懈，她的房子、她的生活、她的人生，一切fall到无底深渊
瀑布、疫情、单亲妈妈，成品出来都是表面的联系，到结尾真的是强行把瀑布按进剧情里，贾静雯演的很好，其他都有点苍白。
这还是属于中岛传雄的影像，尽管钟孟宏的温情没有以前那么冷峻了。
之前几部如果说是表面鸡汤实则暗黑，这次钟孟宏终于拍了一部真的彻彻底底的鸡汤。
本片是鍾孟宏風格的一次轉變，收斂了《陽光普照》的暴力場面以及《腿》的黑色幽默，而且人物亦轉換成柔弱的女性。此片以疫情爆發為背景，巧妙利用配合現實的處境，以人們對病毒的種種未知，表現人際間的冷漠和不信任，由家庭延伸到職場，更充滿了令人不快的壓迫感，母女的牽絆以及角色轉換尤其動人，可惜鍾孟宏這份人文關懷始終是機械化的理解，未能寫出女性的心思多面，複雜，既想經營懸疑又要刻意販賣溫情，多少有點貪多嚼不爛的感覺。但賈靜雯和王凈之間完整豐富的演出，令母親和女兒這兩個角色充滿閃光點，可以說是本片最杰出，最驚喜的部分。儘管本片各種元素和情節的組織未必比得上《陽光普照》，但這仍然是一部視野獨到之作。
瀑布，也是the falls，从高高的地方跌落、坠下，却成为一道心灵的绝佳风景。
中介大叔倒满狠的呀~
贾静雯真的厉害，故事比较慢热，或者根本不热。最近在看《挪威的森林》，对于生活中的人脑袋中的那根弦突然断掉，不再像以前一样感到吃惊了，人真的很脆弱。
精神分裂症的发生源于各种压力，工作上的，感情上的，亲情上的等等，压力大到无法发泄，不安和焦虑的极端表现形式就是需要住院治疗了。
钟孟宏真的很戳我的点！看完莫名有种emo+感动的感觉。大家都演得很好，也很有感触。当蓝色大口罩摘下，阳光进来。就如同最近久久阴雨刺骨的天气，搭配刚刚出现的阳光。虽然只是微光，但终会阳光普照。
颠倒失序的一切都会好起来，如瀑布终将汇成溪流。疫情隔离、经济隔离、情感隔离，在迅速坠落的精神与外在世界中，终归能找到一个抓手，慢慢好起来。认清现实后的疗愈，也许只是个美好愿望，但还是可以疗愈一时。Don't Sweat It。王净像年轻的范晓萱。
疫情只是一个突如其来的考验，在这次突击检查中，人们精神与身体潜在的病痛纷纷浮现，轻轻一推，大厦倾倒。
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