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.
我们都想成为一个有趣的人 最后却都成为了一个普通人
倒叙了46岁中年男的一生，好像什么都没讲又讲了一个人的一生。像车轮般往前碾压回忆，等到结尾出租车在东京的黑夜里疾驰，路过一个又一个回忆里的人，确实被触动到。东京塔灭的一瞬间，我也很伤心
长大成为大人的意义是什么呢？大概就是变得和周身人一般，普通而又无趣罢。
为结局和故事结构加一星，本身只是一个中年普通男子丧气记忆，但是这种回溯感做得很到位，新的一天来临，终究还是普通的他，终究还是无法成为大人。
最后flashback和剧照几张胶片很有青春感，森山的表演一如既往的神乎其技，构建了一条坚韧的情感动力。但初恋的选角却有点差强人意，整部影片像顽固的车胎追了几万里，却发现一早泄光气
倒叙很大程度上稀释了初恋的重要性/歌很好听
开始是倒叙有点看不进去，后面再回到当下时间点时，突然有恍然大悟的感觉，原来那个人是那个谁。最后我们都无法避免地变成了普通的人，有什么可遗憾的呢，当一个普通的大人已经很难了。
时间流过的一切，都会成为过去，普通最棒了。
看着一步一步走向更糟不就是普通的我们吗，正因为如此不堪、未熟、幼稚造就了社会中的人渣，人渣是那种连垃圾处理站都无法分类残存在城市阴暗处的人，光线只是表面，因为永远接受不了起点和中途糟糕的自己，所以在原圈里拼命的奔跑找不到尽头。
大人的世界就是明明内心很冷漠，表面总装得很温柔。只有不谙世事的少年，才会拥有真挚赤诚的心。庆幸那些在路上遇到的过客，我的生命才变得一点都不普通。
最终我们还是会变成大人，变成我们自己都不喜欢的样子，有些东西曾经有过就可以的了……
看的时候被别的事情分散注意力，但是瞟回屏幕还是隐约知道在说什么。现在想想，好像第四堵墙的里外，竟然非常意外地吻合:普通。又有点不普通。
电影用片段倒序进行的方式展开，因为没看过原著看了两遍电影才搞清楚故事的来龙去脉。很喜欢森山未来的演出，几个女角也挺称职，电影还是挺精彩的！尤其是几段森山未来和伊藤莎莉诠释的少男少女的初恋是整部电影最精彩的部分。森山未来最后的回忆也让人有挥之不去的浓浓伤感。
在酒后的路上遇到曾经熟悉的人 路过发生过无数故事的街头 听到和曾经女友一起喜欢的歌 想起送花的好友 一起租的车 一起打的工 一起过的马路 第一次亲密时的心动还记得吗 我们都不想成为大人 我们也都成为了大人
长大成为大人的意义是什么呢？大概就是变得和周身人一般，普通而又无趣罢。
可能因為是同個男主角，看的時候總想起《苦役列車》。
导演真的一直在夸男主的演员森山的演技，
2021年11月6日观看。日本80后的怀旧片，比我们做的用心一点，但也并不深刻。
这个年纪+看过小说，让我看片的时候心情更复杂。
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