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.
当75岁老太太回忆起她的高光时刻，她见过一个麋鹿家庭悠然自得，见过燕群在悬崖边飞舞嬉戏，她在河中看到自己的倒影，仿佛置身这一场燕群舞，见过雏燕破壳而出的样子，感慨造物主的美妙神奇；当Fern给在路上的年轻人回忆自己结婚时的誓言诗时，苍天明眸有时过于灼热，金色面容往往蒙上阴翳，而你如仲夏繁茂不凋谢，秀雅风姿将永远翩翩；当Fern头戴发箍拿着烟火说Happy New Year前一秒假兴奋后一秒落寞时，我真的泪流满面。
在公路和放逐的片子里并不能算特别打动我的。本来遇到各式各样的人和相忘于江湖的淡如水还挺感动的，但最后归结到要 remember 不太能 relate。大概是被迫而不是出于选择的缘故，回到原点的 Amazon 仓库真的有点 depressing，看的时候我想要的放逐重生自由感完全没有，内心满满的是女主在房间里听到雷声时的压迫感。
“成群的燕子在我周身扑扇着翅膀，我和它们的影子一同倒映在水中，就像在一起飞舞。” 好轻盈。成为星辰的一刻。也能回归尘土，弯下腰去，粘起碎掉的盘子，剪去乱发，冲洗泥土，努力做宇宙的参与者。道路是家乡，天空是屋顶，烟花在手中炸开的同时，被紧握也是生活的裂痕，可是硕大的远方一定能包容下一个小小的我吧。别放弃漂泊。
文化差异？完全get不到什么深刻之处。钢琴曲+琐碎事+公路旅游广告
No, I'm not homeless. I'm just houseless. Not the same thing.
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。
很多人可能会看睡着，但那些没有看睡着的人，会得到一种全然不同的体验。
这部其实通俗了很多，但就是那么恰如其分的拍到人心里去了。
虽然周围人都抱以不屑，但我认为是不错的。摒弃戏剧性，大量呈现状态，国外是认可这种路线的，然而国内只认戏剧性，总在找冲突找人物关系找动作，对电影的理解未免有点太呆板狭隘了。
影像技术非常好，但是对故事重心走向感到失望，我不能满意呈现出超大型资本世界下零工生活、和被宛如火山灰覆盖的废旧工厂同时，出于对个人悲辛叙事的着迷，把原子化的老年困境拍成带上一层田园牧歌滤镜的选择。不过看到科恩嫂在清泉中裸体平躺独对天地，看到与性无关的衰老女性身体，清洁，一无所有，对那种孤独有所触动，在那一幕流下眼泪。
他们说我一路惊喜，却不知同行者都说着一样的话，纹着一样的身，干着一样枯燥的工作；他们说我抛下一切，我却常看着老照片哽咽；他们说我不念过往，我却摘不下手上的戒指，忘不掉婚礼上的念白。
2021.03.06
莫名还挺适合新年看的。还是没让人失望。科恩嫂仿佛成了观众的眼，带着我们走进了这些Nomads的生活。自始至终都是一种寂寥之感，还挺让人感慨的，有时觉得他们很勇敢，有时也不明白活着到底为什么。配乐煽情有点儿过，但还是挺让人有代入感的。
和我高中时特别喜欢的那部《荒野生存》就像是A面B面，区别就在于你有没有选择。第一次感觉我的“生活就是一部公路片”这个人生哲理透出无限的苍凉。
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。
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抽烟、清洁、拉撒、裸泳：持续全片的琐碎画面拼凑起一位怀念亡夫的倔强中年女性的流浪人生。感觉就是结合了麦姨各种硬气姿态和美国山区风光的大型MV（还真的literally有生命之树啊），全程仓促地从一个片段跳到下一个片段，没有积蓄，无法共情。回妹妹家和去相好家的两段很无力，因为Fern的态度明摆在那里，最终的选择毫无悬念。从《骑士》到这部，我觉得赵婷退了一大步。
产业转移后失业的丧偶中老年人流浪般的床车/房车生活，到处打零工，很拮据。床车/房车生活，短期可能浪漫，无奈的长期生活就是凄惨。。
后一个小时是享受，分享，执着。
“I am not homeless, I am just houseless.” 温柔又有力量，值得一座金狮。
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