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.
无聊至极，白左对极右的无力回击。一看到同志亦凡人的暴论我就无法克说，豆瓣真就开始和阿B、逼乎等一样全员降智，暴论迭出呗。
“你是否藐视我们的政府？”
只想用丝滑形容索金的剧作和台词。一如既往的嵌套与张力将美国司法与权力系统嘲讽的体无完肤。《死亡诗社》式的结局是被统治阶级仅剩的反抗。成片其实略有一丝套路，但五星在豆瓣表示“力荐”，希望所有人都能看看，因为“全世界都在看”！
“与我的政府对我的蔑视相比，我的蔑视不值一提”
对美国政治不了解 看得我一脸懵逼 以至于最后的唱戏觉得有点尬。
集中的群像实际只有三个半在线，唇枪舌剑没有实质性内容。
美国这类真实事件改编的电影跟非虚构文学一样，细节考究，但是太冗长，看得缺乏代入感。然而豆瓣用户就喜欢给这种电影打高分，其实是给“民主”打高分。
好久没有一场表演能同时带来两种眼泪了。
小哥聊了一句他在记名字因为和越南阵亡者相比他们这个court fight 就很trivial, 然后一句话 马上进入下一幕了。然后我当然脑子一机灵，我觉得这个大概率就是为了结尾埋伏笔了。i m patting myself on my own back for that
20201025 60年代再次被当代世界所“审判”，不过这次却是在一个真正的白左的视角之中，同时必须放置在和2020年的对话关系里。艾伦索金讲故事的才能也尽可能呈现了一个多元，异质甚至是芜杂的社会状况，而将主人公定位为汤姆海登而非阿比霍夫曼，更非黑豹党，看看日后几人的政治生命，这无疑也是索金的政治声明——需要通过体制内部的变革，而非颠覆体制的革命，来实现社会正义。而这又成为了Mark Lilla式的，给民主党人在这个节骨眼上的喊话，也缩写了60年代运动的丰富内涵。两场戏印象深刻，一扇玻璃隔开60和50两个时代瞬间让人穿越回《罗马》里家具店那场戏，只不过这次视角被难能可贵地放在了街道上；片尾的反高潮，用念白而非长篇大论，以历史作为最强有力的证言，不落俗套，正是索金的过人之处。
说实话，初看这部电影，并没有太多共鸣，因为不了解那段历史背景。对于真实历史事件改编的电影，最大的收获是其介绍了一段不为大多数人所熟知的历史，它会促使我们去探索历史的真相。在查阅了维基百科之后，了解到这个事件和1968年相当广泛的一系列民主活动有深刻的联系。
之前就感叹过，有些题材只要敢拍敢公映便已注定满分。对于这段历史的呈现是对某国自由民主最大的讽刺，而本片能上映倒也反映了一定自由民主性。非常敬佩片中各位演员的表演，特别是霍夫曼大法官。。因为在片中真是个人人喊打的存在，哈哈。小雀斑果然很会选片子。关于现实中人物的结局，果然偏向服从体制的汤姆最后当选州参议员，而其他两位嬉皮士似乎不那么圆满。
建制左和激进左的相爱相杀，是不破不立，有破有立的互补共存，即使在右的冷漠视角看来一概都是破坏社会稳定的危险分子。The left因为多元开放允许争论才被称为the left，但即使被分级，被离间，他们依然站在一起。
本来应该四星的，对白推进蒙太奇太不招人喜欢，台词太密，细节太略。但是Bobby Seale被court order gag的那场戏太精彩，一动一静，交织的太妙。而且SBC真的太圈粉了，正戏political satire样样都行。最后一幕真的被成功催泪了，大晚上的要哭晕在被窝了。The world is watching。连Aaron Sorkin算是温和的democrat都吹了集结号了。要还有四年Trump真是要血雨腥风啊！
剧作完整，结构工整，表达准确。单项看提供的都是正确选项。但放在一起做为一个两个半小时的电影，也因为各项的准确变得沉闷乏味。当然zhengzhi意义上的东西另说哈。
好难得把一场审判拍的没有很无聊。但N记电影通病还是…创意高，拍摄诡异…看着真难受。
调度好厉害。虽然说主题立意远大于故事本身，但一个半小时我还是从头哭到尾。喜欢用圣经交流，加油站默哀，消防员妈妈和凌晨四点做德餐这几个片段！可能因为时长和故事基调，一些问题讨论得浅尝辄止。
愿世界和平愿世界美好。
愿世界和平愿世界美好。
艾伦·索金又一部精彩的庭审故事，开场第一次庭审就张力十足，且勾勒出几个主要角色的性格，确实厉害。整部电影核心都集中在庭审，紧张、激烈、热血。最后的结案陈词太燃了。
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