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.
这是个关于信任的故事，信任是成本最大的选择，却也是收益最大的选择，利益是一切具象和抽象本质，而利益的本质是信任，人类社会需要一个更好的故事，否则将永远陷入厮杀和争夺。放弃一切反而得到一切指的就是选择，一个人从来需要的都不多，得到自己想要的，和拥有一切选择的权利才是圆满。最终，我更倾向于，已经发生的都是命定，而未发生的，始终都有可能，并非希望。
因为没有预期所以倍感惊喜！好电影好动画啊，黑暗中机器人亮起的那一幕最让我感动，想二刷了。PS：这真是库克被黑的最厉害的一次，想起来之前看到的一句话：在web 2.0及以前，互联网own在少数寡头手中；在web 3.0，每一个用户将真正拥有一部分的互联网。我不知道这个梦想能不能做到，但是如果做到了那有多好啊～
看到Ron主动要求上传网络时，我大为震惊，还以为这是打算致敬攻壳了，结果果然是我想多了。感觉本片可以干脆改名叫《迪士尼群嘲FB和苹果，并自称他们才是孩子的好朋友》。影片揪着库克痛批监控技术与逐利资本，但又仔细为技术开脱——“它只是被资本不当利用了”——最后宣扬【被爱感化过的技术】是至善至美的希望，是人性的拯救者。然而由Barney独立建模调教，名为【Ron】的深度学习算法，不就是传（敛）教（财）全世界的迪士尼的化身？这无非是在自我标榜：唯有以IP寓教于乐的迪士尼才是善良技术和善良资本，可以带给孩子们真正的欢乐与陪伴。哦这让我想起另外一位slogan是“更多欢乐更多选择”的老伙计。建议这次也可以考虑搭配麦当劳开心乐园餐，开卖合作款Ron玩具。
如今发达的网络科技带来的已不仅仅是世界互通的便捷，有时是对流行度的偏执，有时是让寂寞孤独的人更加的寂寞孤独。
2022年第一部电影，good choice。友谊是双向的～
3星，片子低龄低幼，但整体流畅度不错，充满童心的娱乐感。 意思就是不要被网络数据所迷惑，多关心一下身边的朋友，付出才有回报。
【7.5】“拍电影，一定要有话要说”，或许这就是索伦蒂诺在讲他自己的故事，特别精致，但共鸣不多，太私人了。关于青春与性，“男孩一夜之间的成长”，还有马拉多纳和费里尼，足球与电影。（看得出意大利女性地位不高，总是男性成长的工具。）
3.5
“我现在不喜欢生活。我想过一种想象中的生活，想过去那样。”
社交工具阻断社交，不完美才是真完美。成人化元素不少，影射多种问题，尤其是潜在科技危机与Zuck vs. Cook。
我只想死在，或者时间停摆把我留在那个夜晚的加油站
男主的设定有点无聊，有趣的点全部在阿荣身上了。本片的反大数据反高科技意识很明显，处处讽刺苹果（bubble 对应apple)，还搞了个长得像乔布斯的形象当反派。另外不理解为什么插入一个反共奶奶的设定，就显得很不搭边。
这是库克在2021年卖iPhone 4；只是不知“I hate kids.”是20世纪的叛逆还是迪士尼的自嘲？
我们手机里的好友列表在增多，
a possible tech giant domination story
Ron的故事让我觉得，很多时候人们紧盯着自己的屏幕，其实不过是在直面自己的孤独。这是一部时代价值高于艺术价值的作品。最后的处理太仓促，立意整体有创新。它也莫名让我想起了两个天壤之别、毫不相干的作品，一个是著名少女漫《守护甜心》，一个是斯派克琼斯导演的电影《她》。随着人类理性科技和感性想象力的双向提升，加之社会量产流水线上人们对“陪伴”的特殊需求，一个可以给人类提供情感价值陪伴的系统就顺理成章成为了不少影视作品的重点孵化对象，而这部电影精彩的地方在于它是随着西方世界如火如荼进行的“take a social media break”号召诞生的，比之其他同类型作品，它更成为大数据时代的一个楔子——抛开人们对电子产品的过度依赖，信息安全、数据传播和人类一些媒体社交行为都值得思考。
结尾处，少年戴上耳机，闭上眼睛聆听，车窗外的风景被飞快掠过，阳光散射在座位上，好多年好多事过去，似乎生活又回到这个平淡而美好的下午
但由于商业考量的桎梏也未能更加深刻。
动画里的科技公司永远有一个反人类的没有人性的阴险狡诈的大老板/永远搞到电源短路的烂电脑原来是关键道具/社交牛逼症的机器人拯救社交恐惧症的怪男孩，人机友谊万岁！
【2022.03】Ron为什么没有在彩蛋中回来
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