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.
精英式的幻想 精英式的傲慢 精英式的无病呻吟
一个女人能放下家族，追求者，安定，去选择或者说被迫选择自己要的生活，无疑是了不起的。
颇有肯·洛奇风格，但并非影片内核，在前一大半部分都有些“不知所云”，如果想要把它套进任何一种明显的类型或议题。但一切又循环开始，逗留是为了证明逝去的曾经存在，但悖论的是无所依靠仿佛是存在的前提条件，如此纤弱又如此强韧。或许美中不足的是叙事风格过于飘逸，punctum并不太明显，但是情绪内核隐藏得很深。
现代吉普赛的自我修养:失去，孤独，旅途，上路。
影片基本上就是在营造一个周而复始的圈 主人公的活动轨迹 跟那个戒指一样 是个环形宿命 所以这个片子基本上在呈现不断流转的轨迹化运动 但事实上没有锚定点 如果非要将这种思路作为影片辩护的手段 那么视听上不用那么讲究 搞得跟小青年文艺风格一样算是哪门子事？ 如果你把那种跟钢琴伴奏清泉流水一样的剪辑视为小清新的MV影像的延伸 那么跟镜头风格倒是很匹配 两星不能再多了 要学马利克或者学肯洛奇都可以 但得往一种风格上走 不然做出来的都是夹生饭
人不至于绝望到死，因为有条退路，还可以去开RV，我说我想隐居，但却有不得不停留在一处生活下去的理由，我要和世界告别似乎还有些远，也许偶尔随处游牧随波逐流断了线迷了路失了方向，但有些人生活早已成了黑洞，吸走了一切光和热，他们不得不上路，心静自然凉。赵婷让国人知道，我们不缺好导演，缺的是宽容的环境。出字幕前最后一段旋律莫名让我想起了《在人间》：会有柏林墙出不去，一生与苦难做邻居，伟大时光已夺走你什么，在人间有谁活着不像是一茬炼狱，我不哭我已经没有尊严能放弃。
8.5/10 配乐差了点意思，片里的人也都太白了，可能因为POC的境况要更差一些吧。总体而言还是觉得挺真实的，可以relate。我常一个人去山里，一个人旅行，一个人睡在车上，担心半夜被人敲醒。我经济上当然比Fern更宽裕些，但是孤独感是相通的。我还记得一月的一个夜晚，我去海边散步，突然就下起了暴雨。我站在大岛东边的悬崖上，惊涛拍岸，风呼啸而过，雨点打在身上，我一时吓得几乎不敢动弹，但仍不愿意离开，也说不出是觉得高兴还是难过。看到有友邻说这个故事太单薄空洞，我也不知道是不是，但我感觉我的生活好像就是挺单薄空洞的，如果拍出来，大概会很无聊，会有许多长长的空镜头。我妈曾经说过我走路很慢，看着都不知道是来还是去，想到这里，我觉得一阵难过。我的确不知道。我可能都做不了nomad，我不知道可以去哪里。
“自己带来的自己要带走。”
街头语言很缓和，大量的冷色调和清新的配乐，十分适合早春和晚冬看。
《骑士》的优点不仅都保留了下来，还进一步加强了，Fern走在亚利桑那的营地的几段镜头都是绝佳的摄影和导演的结合，赵婷脚踩的这根虚构/非虚构之间的钢丝真的不是一般导演能踩的，麦克多蒙德奉献的表演依旧超神，倒数第二个镜头很有意味。
Victim of capitalism and intrepid pioneer of a second life. Non-actors convincing. Celebration of wide open spaces, hard labor, a way of life born out of necessity but full of optimism.
况吾与子渔樵于江渚之上，侣鱼虾而友麋鹿，驾一叶之扁舟，举匏樽以相属。寄蜉蝣于天地，渺沧海之一粟。哀吾生之须臾，羡长江之无穷。挟飞仙以遨游，抱明月而长终。知不可乎骤得，托遗响于悲风。
一直在想什么时候结束，这种电影可以得金球奖，对精心制作的剧本、剪辑、配乐……都是侮辱
How does it feel. To be on your own. With no direction home. Like a complete unknown. Like a rolling stone
当然，很容易指摘说赵婷的改编过于浪漫化，但电影本身并不必然承担社会学责任。就其审美层面而言，这一百分钟的大写意，既一言不发，又滔滔不绝，那些痛苦的难堪的窘迫的屈辱的，被省略也被超越。东坡和佛印，肚里有什么，眼里又有什么？
有选择而浪漫才是真浪漫。
我们要飞到那遥远地方看一看 这世界依旧那么凄凉
石黑一雄曾提起自己在伦敦收留无家可归者的慈善机构做义工时，发现人们并不会直截了当地讲述他们来到这里的原因，最常见的情况便是，有些人觉得自己的痛苦经历太过于难以启齿，所以借别人的故事来讲自己的故事。于是当女主角弗恩来到游牧民的群体之中，倾听这些人讲述他们的故事时，我讶异于这些人的坦诚。这大概是因为，他们似乎并不把游牧当做逼不得已的生存方法，他们身上有着一种更崇高的使命感——有的为了完成自己的心愿，探索未曾踏足过的未知之地;有的为了不让生命留下遗憾，为往后的日子留下更多美好的回忆。正如女主角的漂泊，一方面是性格使然，一方面是对亡夫的感怀。片名虽说“无依”，但片中的人物又好似并非“无依”，房车为无可慰藉的他们提供了可依之地。
一宗产业的倒闭好像树倒猢狲散，“萧条时代”三连击的第三击，但是看的过程中感受并不深刻，惟觉个中似有一种亚裔人最擅长的巧妙的不得罪人。是想要触及保障不健全的痛点吗？No，有些人只是不适合屋檐下终老，有些人不喜欢被领带拴住的生活，还有些人希望路上能够重逢逝去的亲人。世代流传的母题仿佛轻松找到了解答，或诗意或温情，但直觉告诉我这并不是真相。最好拍成纪录片，否则就会像这样，编导的才华驾驭不了素材，给出的解答煽情但缺乏根基，某些滥俗的升华，干脆成了鉴别村花的那粒豌豆。
不太能看下去，没有一个事件是能令人专注的，甚至对于这样一个题材来说镜头从来没有认真倾听过它的那些上路人，总是忍不住切到麦克多蒙德。
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