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.
“荒地上长着丁香 把回忆和欲望参合在一起”
这不是《海边的曼彻斯特》里丧偶后的生活孤独，也不是《德州巴黎》中要逃离社会的心灵孤独。这种一种最接近灵魂本质，人类在这个自然宇宙中孤独，是一种不存在任何社会符号，不能用任何语言文字所形容的永恒的孤独。女性天生比男生更接近自然，这才是女性电影人最具感染力的影像传递力量。她和李安没有可比性，而是在泰伦斯马利克的基础上的更进一步。（配乐差强人意，影像风格略显跳跃，但比起骑士已经是个很大的飞跃。）
生命是趟没有终点的旅程，不论我们选择走哪条路都没有对错之分，而生命的终极意义是摆脱无明找到真我。
某些人太极端了吧🤷♂️
非无依无靠却背负伤痛的这些人，选择了独自隐忍淡然漂泊，换不同地方，见不同的人，做不同的工作，以此释怀。末，回到起点，重新上路。一种碎片化抒情的文艺表达，虽心有所失，可放逐自己并非唯一出路啊。
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
完成度异常的高，画面细腻，感情层层递进，在公路片中算佼佼者
寄蜉蝣于天地，渺沧海之一粟。吾生之须臾，羡长江之无穷。挟飞仙以遨游，抱明月而长终。
大多时候，镜头总是以纪录片的形式对准了说话者，仿佛他们不是在主动讲述，而是在被访问。如此处理倒也贴合着Fern新一代游民的身份，电影也在不断切换的「我」的叙述口吻下实现了对现代性的批判。不过在拼贴节奏的主导与影响下，电影似乎变成了一篇形神皆散的散文，既无法聚拢此前种种自圆其说，也无法为结局与未来铺陈合理的行为逻辑，语言与动作、配乐与画面都存在明显的真空。McDormand演技很好，但无法与电影自洽。
“I am not homeless, I am just houseless.” 温柔又有力量，值得一座金狮。
小团队，轻技术，文本影像音乐表演极具感染力，是我心中喜欢的流动影像和类生活电影。想拍这样的电影
如果一个人每天都在自残，拒绝善意，又要融入社会，却无法跟自己和解。这样的电影，即便镜头很美，配乐舒缓，看完又能感受到什么呢，意义呢？很多人都在跟海边的曼彻斯特做对比。从我个人的灼见来讲，剧情的发展，情感的张力，和人物的内心成长，都不可相提并论。同样是无法和过去和解，曼彻斯特跟人的力量非常强大，男主其实还是得到了救赎；但无依之地最后回到离开的地方，画了一个圆而已。所以中间整个电影就是导演沉醉于自我抛弃的一种美的表达吗？两星给演技。
我好像有点理解了她，当我独自在越南生活时。
镜头写实，人物表演也自然，全片都在传达悲伤和思念的情绪，就是没有能让观众记住的段落。
It`s good.喜欢片中大量孤独的镜头。自然的镜头，都觉得很美，很安静，配乐太好听，激起很多泪点，在回忆的时候，对话的时候，描述很美场景的时候。我记得她和妹妹分别，在清晨太阳刚升起没多久的时刻，很美。清晨时刻很美。听别人描述，他很喜欢你，经常提到你。“我会再见到我的儿子，你会再见到你的波”。See you down the road.
四星半。一部几乎没有情节，极度情绪化的作品，有很多的留白和空镜，一呼一吸间，叹尽了人的孤独和生命的苍凉。
从不说永别，期待下一次同行。准备不好相遇，慌慌张张遮遮掩掩又马上道着别离。独处时刻才能无我，因而痛恨无处不在的镜子
勘破三春景不长,绍衣顿改昔年妆。
没有姓氏的流浪者只能永远在路上。虽然整体创作方式上带有某种即兴，但仍未脱离美国独立电影的范式框架。对时代和政治上的及时回响，留下的是浪漫主义的解答。
像一首隽永悠长而意犹未尽的散文诗，关于旅途、也关于人生。
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