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.
魏玛共和国时期最伟大的作品。三十年代的德国，纸醉金迷和开放性宛如二十一世纪的好莱坞，令人咋舌。
注定是又一段让人印象深刻的启程。独特的时代背景赋予其意义——萧条之后，劫难之前，世界仿佛在变得越发疯狂；然而却依然抓住激情，于动荡中纵情，麻木、忘记还有燃烧。
闪闪发光，虽然被践踏、被毁坏，但是在火焰和水流里，都发出那种真的光芒，那是他们想要消灭却束手无策的，那是最要紧，最值得守护的。
一个没有任何才能的人目睹一个才华横溢的人接受生活同等的操练，感觉自己就是最后那个往下跳的小孩。在生活的无数穿梭里，在背道而驰的关系里，在时间失序的混沌里，无路无力。
喜欢最开始的长镜头以及100年前“被呈现出的”柏林与真实景象交错而成的故事。朋友说拍出来了Kästner的核心，只是爱情和纳粹两个元素被过多强调了，人生的荒诞与孤独也不过如此... 现场见到了Schiling小哥还是很激动，他太适合Fabian这个角色了！
个人在洪流中覆灭的史诗，在所有的情感被时代异化的时候，个体对自我的坚持往往更像是一种自我毁灭。
请跟着摄影机，我的眼睛，我的念白，一同穿梭游荡回1931年的柏林，镜头上有水渍，声音中有叹息，一早透露一种普通德国人的命定结局。“请你活出比我更好的人生，请继续写作，写写过去的样子和过去本该的样子。”
从《无主之作》到《亚历山大广场》，德国导演似乎很喜欢拍摄这类长篇的电视电影。前半段眼花缭乱的技法活灵活现地勾画出30年代魏玛共和国时期的纸醉金迷氛围，令人赞不绝口。可惜后半段逐渐转向痴男怨女的爱情故事，恢弘的时代感坍缩成一个作家的悲剧，这种情节处理更接近文学作品的展示，在影像上没有太惊艳的突破。
一个那样有才华的人却死于一场玩笑，跟现在的社会竟然有些相似
一个没有任何才能的人目睹一个才华横溢的人接受生活同等的操练，感觉自己就是最后那个往下跳的小孩。在生活的无数穿梭里，在背道而驰的关系里，在时间失序的混沌里，无路无力。
礼崩乐坏毁灭即将到来的时代，自尊心和道德主义一点水声都没打出就被淹没，Tom Schilling睡会不爱呢！
手持风格、旁白的叙述、法比安一生的故事，都是我喜欢的。
很喜欢，从开头的长镜头就开始喜欢，之后，画幅设计、充满怀旧感的胶片，一幅德国浮世绘悦然眼前。一个小人物也可窥见大历史，风雨欲来前的社会终究无能为力，就像小人物湮没水中，波涛继续翻涌，仿佛他从未存在。
8.5/10。21世纪文艺青年自省指南：不要勇敢地跳入那方水潭。
三小时居然没觉得过分，就很厉害。影片把一战战败后的德国的混沌与挣扎，通过个体生活的无常，表现得淋漓精致。而法比安可以被看作是这混沌走向破碎中残存的良知，还在求助于理性和爱。可惜的是，德国那时已然失去了可供民众于文明中游弋的可能。如果电影没有另外加那些乱七八糟的镜头其实会干净利落得多，刻意的炫技在这个完整的故事里毫无必要。
整体评分：7.5/10分
乍看本片是导演用1931年的柏林对当下的隐喻 资本主义经济周期低谷下 陷入绝望、混乱、对立 过去的道德不再有效 沙文主义抬头 男主成为暴风雨中的孤岛 但如果将二战爆发作为末日象征 那么本片实则表现的就是末日前的世间百态 在文本上成为当下的双重隐喻 这也应和了资本运行逻辑下的电影创作 总是每到一个时期就会将几十年前的文本拿出来重拍 本片也是如此 因为资本社会本身的经济起伏周期也吻合这一需要 《法比安》即资本主义社会每次低谷时必会出现的社会样貌写照 埃里希卡斯特纳在当年书写的《法比安》 既是二战前夕德国浮世绘 也是二战为何爆发的溯因之一 这部2021年的新版 导演不但使用了四比三画幅 也开始有意识地将多介质、短视频元素加入电影 多画幅分屏此次承载了更明确的叙事意义 一个重拍本片的时代是一个应该警省的时代
挑剔而选择挨饿的生活，才是生活吧；在疯狂的时代。
这次泪点在前段，一个头槌就出来了。把蜘蛛山和无限列车连上了，可惜蜘蛛山前少一部合集，能补做一部不？
我真的太喜欢这部电影了！我要把我所有的偏爱都给你！
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