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.
我可以为你学着扮演任何角色，只是为了得到你的爱！结果吓到你伤害了自己
A24真有东西👍🏻，独立电影界宝藏啊，这部有灯塔的味道了，也是嘉兰最实验最文艺的一部作品
前半段的悬疑惊悚氛围中规中矩 前几个隐喻也不算是很高的观影门槛 比较呼之欲出 最后的套娃把恐怖氛围拉满的同时给了观众无限遐想和艺术想象 但整体的观感又比不上《湮灭》和《机械姬》的寓言性质和人性思考 宗教恐怖片还是有着诸多问题不好达成艺术思想上的统一
这两年看了不少这种带有内在的主题探讨而外在表现选择恐怖/惊悚题材的影片，并且其主题大多为性别议题，似乎带有足够富有猎奇性质和视觉冲击力的类型元素能够很好地映射现实社会中女性面临的困境。
和小段一起看。有点类似于《反基督者》，只是两部影片攻击的集体正好相反。最后将所有男人符号化，赋予切开的右手和折断的右脚的特征，连续分娩注定载入恐怖片史册了。
Dear Garland: Try to lay some decent plots as groundwork then upon that elaborate on visuals, not the other way round; for instance, at any rate there were some plots, not that they were nearly as stunning as the looks by any means, for the visuals to be based upon in your Annihilation, were there not? Please stick to that formula, comprende?
a24的片子真是越来越难以下咽，故作高深、虚声靡靡、全是自以为的概念加上一点点视觉冲击力，感觉这样下去离倒闭也不远了…
空镜什么都挺美的，一到最后就无力收尾，希望nope别走这个路线
不是恐怖片，是恐男片，既诡异又魔幻，惊呆我。
【7.5】《湮灭》中既精神污染又非常迷人的奇观+《机械姬》的女性视角，一次蛮不错的融合，某些场景和新奇的设定可以成为某种程度上的经典。不过倾向性也太强，一条路走到黑，故事几乎没拐弯，始终在展示“因（各类）男性而起的宿命般的噩梦”，一部纯替女性发言的、散发着形式美的怪片，可以寄托你对性别问题的担忧，也可以猝不及防地惊掉你的下巴。
绝美田园自然风光片，配乐也很动听。高潮的套娃分娩非常cult，和女主一样整个看懵了。从头至尾蒲公英的隐喻不言自明，来自不同角色男人的凝视，洗脑，讨好式接近都带着目的性，而漠然麻木的警察角色也是这种恶意的帮凶。前夫的自杀式PUA更是成为根植女主心灵的梦魇。男人也好，女人也罢，就不要把自以为是的自我感动当成爱或者索爱的理由了吧。
！！！！男人可以从任何“洞口”生出男人？？那一幕真的，怎么他们的表情如此痛苦？孩子不是神赐予的生命吗？🐶
我觉得Garland学Ari Aster学岔了，前半段有太多inconsistent的意象和空镜头。还好摄影优秀没被不明所以的剪辑给埋没。喜欢展现出来现代关系中的manipulation比暴力更让人反胃，相较而言某些只象征slut shaming的分身反而显得弱了。
内化的男性凝视投向寂静的外部世界，理智沉睡之时这里充满了来自潜意识的梦魇，这只怪兽既是“愧疚”也是“无力”，是丈夫设下的阴影线，也是古老如岁月“不能为我征服之物将悉数毁灭”的诅咒。同一的面容也许并非男人们的真实样貌，却是这些强抑惊惧的女人心底心照不宣的影子
前面乡村别墅户外绿色美景，有点自己吓自己那种，后面奇异展现，整体像是精神疾病困扰的具象化。联想战栗黑洞，时间裂缝，湮灭，入侵脑细胞，坠入，鬼女艾拉。虽然这部电影这么表现，但是现实中素质和性别也没啥必然联系。
温和但瘆人
符号是直给的，隐喻是表层的，但图像上绝对能载入cult影史（到后半段越看越兴奋。直接联想到阿伦诺夫斯基的《母亲！》一类强符号性的寓言作品，海报之一也让人想到《趣味游戏》，同样不断地对观众实施精神强暴。
不想去研究什么隐喻，只觉得连环生育那段有看头
男权社会中，所有男人都是一个超级联盟，甚至他们扮演一个角色，他们使用暴力、精神控制、洗脑，为了保证可以一直吸女人的血，身为女人无处可逃。跟前段时间看的夏布洛尔的《爱丽丝最后的逃离》非常相似。
男人们只是说，这都是你造成的。看这部电影可以省一顿晚饭
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