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.
就是你们总宣传离婚以后更潇洒自在，还能遇上真爱，才有那么多人动不动就离婚。实际上离婚带着孩子的女人很难再找到共度下半生的另一半了。能找到的都是运气极好的。好男人都是被很多女人追着围着，中等的男人也是被伴侣抓的死死的，只剩下差等的男人单着。当然了，如果婚姻实在很痛苦还是要坚决离婚的。大部分的婚姻，我只想说珍惜眼前人。
电影的长处是有目共睹的，赞誉之词不再赘述。如果说Shanghai as a spectacle、看角色们的法租界生活如同看西洋景这点上我能得过且过不提问题，那性别角色部分我实在是忍不住要放厥词了。这部电影和《爱很美味》的共同问题在于，里面的男性角色都是假人、工具人、主创捏出来的模范男人偶男榜样、为了传达和反射主创的女性主义思想的背景板。女的在文艺作品里被工具化千百年了，工具化一下男的有何不行？当然行，但女角色跟男假人发生互动时他们的关系也会被感染certain degree of fakeness. 避重就轻虚假悬浮并不是我最想看到的女性主义创作。但问题来了，我们的商业影视剧市场在性别议题这块可以容纳杨笠式的“我喜欢男的我脑子有病”式自嘲吗？邵艺辉一个女导演能把男的如实拍成丑角而不被网暴吗？
哪里像伍迪.艾伦。小老头的挖苦、调侃、碎碎念背后，是知道分子的愤世嫉俗。你可以看到他骨子里对这个世界的厌倦，他的揭露看似无伤大雅，其实对人物全无同情。而《爱情神话》的底色是对市井的原宥，满满都是细致入微的体谅。其实倒更像独立制作里，专拍中产都市题材的诺亚·鲍姆巴赫，你看他那个群像撕逼、时而穿插些幽默笔触暴露愚蠢的调调里，反而对人物有慈悲。
有多好看呢？就是我封这是我2021最喜欢的华语电影！恨不得明年奥斯卡最佳外语片也能有这部一席之地的那种棒！终于有人能把中年人的爱情讲的这么平实有趣不猎奇还带着暖暖的浪漫！
预定年度最佳，目前为止看过最好看的商业电影，有趣又有深度，难能可贵。
现在的电影，通篇都是正确的————独立觉醒大女主，正确的；自信化妆美男子，正确的；小资情调费里尼，正确的。一部电影从头正确到尾，没有人性插足的落脚点，又离中国真正的阶级社会那么遥远，没看到人物的成长，没看到社会的痛点，镜头调度什么的也就是差强人意，只能说，作为一部商业片，满足了小资和精沪的畅销，却使我感到平淡如水。
费里尼的魂灵不但以文字图画的形式飘逸各处，倪虹洁在KTV见徐峥那一段，更有费式歌剧般磅礴的怪异欲念（两个女人和徐峥谈画展的光影布局也是）。孤男寡女，徐峥追逐马伊琍只是推进故事的动因，倪虹洁和周野芒的老乌才是这部电影的精神（老乌和索菲亚罗兰的故事应该取材自北京慈善大亨李春平），只不过他们一个在声称自己足够危险却在独处时收敛张扬，一个讲述自己的故事并为之心折却又推倒否认，遮掩真实免得自己像个笑话，编导没停在那里自怨自艾，有闲有心情的中年友谊才显得动人，徐峥和周野芒闹矛盾，足足用了一组镜头表示他们不愿见面，片尾一班朋友看老乌不愿触碰的《爱情神话》，一个个昏昏欲睡中主线剧情的心电图恢复跃动，这是对这段友谊最好的祭奠了。几个出人意料的转折处理的顺滑（比如儿子的性取向），音乐、调度等环节都有巧思，看得舒服
年轻时多交几个文青做朋友，饭桌上打打机锋，不但预防老年痴呆，而且有人收尸，灵！
乘兴而来，败兴而归。本以为本片可与《万箭穿心》相提并论，结果竟然跟韩寒导演作品相差仿佛？沪语竟能成为烂俗电影的遮羞布，蔚为奇观焉。强行透过台词 politically correct, 难道不是一种刻奇？
每个场景都知道在哪拍的，好喜欢呀！“原来纽约人看伍迪艾伦就是这种心情。”上海人满地找头，其他人面面相觑。
一个中年人还相信爱情，这本身就挺神话的。里面的中年人其实也不太谈爱，更多是琢磨怎么过日子，实在不行就你就跟我住一起吧，都是这种表述。影片最有趣的地方是，以一种女性视角，处理了一个我们熟悉的男性中年危机的套路，所以，剧情很快也从中年男性话题跳走了。而三个女性角色，也是各有各的魅力。影片呈现出一种轻松与俏皮，对于情感，也没那么功利，而是暧昧与含混的，而这本身，却让这群本来不会有爱情的中年人之间，产生了丝丝浪漫。最终，这还是部基于爱情的，都市轻喜剧，很都市，也很轻喜剧。
如果这电影是男导演拍的，还会有今天这个景象么？想来也挺刻板的。
一万六的鞋求个欢喜，不合适断舍离；
看得出导演努力地想把这关于上海人市井小资生活的电影上升到某种基调，但是很抱歉俗到家了，若是真诚地拍市井烟火也可以拍出好电影的，不知道为什么非得把自己往文艺上硬凑，压根不是这块料，结果生活不生活想搞深刻然而影片那种塑料平庸的质感又喷屏而出，尤其是把徐峥这个角色设定成一个画家也别扭至极，活脱脱一工厂老板味道，真的辱画家了，整部电影叨絮片面又刻意，还有背景音乐也是一通强行乱插。
上海、上海人就是电影里的样子吧？这是我走出电影院后，萦绕心脑的一个疑问。虽然这部电影名字叫《爱情神话》，我觉得不是说爱情，更像是在展现海派文化。既有江南的古典和雅致，又有国际大都市的现代与时尚。种族多元，认知多元。连修鞋的大叔都在喝咖啡说英语讲哲学。还有混血儿，不，外国人都在说沪语，简直是笑死。印象最深的是他们第一次偶遇聚会，对吃饭剩饭家猫野猫的讨论，太搞笑了。观影的过程大部分时间都在笑，那个小玛雅很出彩。直到最后才认出老乌，原来是林教头啊。
把爱情里的矫揉造作、瞻前顾后、欲拒还迎、点到为止都讲了个遍，腔调拿捏的恰到好处，既世俗又灵气，最好的是跳出爱情电影悲喜的窠臼，看是讲爱情，其实都是生活，没有实话，不如吃吃点心。剧里的每个演员都爱，真好，有这样的剧给他们发挥
还有端起酒杯时 或真或假的风流往事。
本年度华语最佳。
导演给自己刷三条5⭐可以吗？
太喜欢了，私心一百分。不尴尬不做作，不亵不使人欢笑，可是又足够严肃认真。
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