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.
喜欢2开门念书这张力、3中学时我们喜欢的那个女生
以偶然为启，牵引出日常和爱的想象，唯一值得怀疑的是，为何不能不乘着“戏剧性”就飞翔呢？
三个短片都喜欢，好像每个女主都有教授说的那种，在情感和欲望被压抑的社会中“可以不受常识的束缚而思考和行动”的能力。
个人感觉是比洪尚秀高级的日本洪尚秀，每个故事都十分精妙，最喜欢第三个故事。
滨口龙介是真喜欢这种棒读台词的演员，并且大概率是个声控，片子总有种舞台剧一样的设计感，远没有村上春树文字里的自然。三个故事关联松散，且没有一个触动我
细腻自然，有股洪尚秀的味道。片中日式穿搭简单而高级，跟这个电影的调性一样
第二段出现的邮箱地址居然可以访问：https://mailbox.neopa.jp/
看似剧本驱动，形式简洁富于节奏，实则超级难拍。对演员的要求极高，滨口折磨起演员来想必不下于小津。
观影这部电影也是最美好的事情之一
都整部影片的叙述节奏缓慢如流水，导演抓住了人与人之间微妙的关系，如一颗小石子投入池塘中，慢慢泛起涟漪，平静的湖面下却是汹涌的情欲。
文本想当的强，从平淡真实的生活中提取那些偶然、想象和魔法，三角关系，色诱教授，还有最后一个故事，更喜欢，两人第二次假扮重逢是那么得有想象力，又那么的动情和温柔，这样的故事只有洞悉人心且有单纯浪漫的人才能真的写得出来
对话风格 - 特别是第一篇 -非常像Rohmer。第二篇到第三篇，就越来越不同，滨口的“日本味道”越来越浓。我最喜欢第三篇，平淡的开头，气氛偶然而自然地逐渐热切，假如以钢琴奏鸣曲来比方的话，成为了贝多芬的“Appasionata”。
最近又开始爱看日本电影，也确实因为看到的都是好片子，总想继续看下去。它们重新勾起一种“式”的定义，所谓日式、韩式、美式、欧式等等确实有其令人厌倦的地方，但“万变总有其宗”的价值，是无法忽视的，是值得欣赏和借鉴也确实在被欣赏和借鉴的。后面的不说了。
喜欢第三个故事，偶然邂逅，将错就错，温柔啊。片名起的真好，偶然与想象。
这三篇……其实木有比读短篇小说给我带来更多调动感or触动感。看到很多人提到侯麦或者洪常秀，我觉得完全不是一个路子呀，和里维特是可以联系一下，就是这种间离感，滨口的间离主要来源于棒读，而这又是二次元世界教给我的东西，他从棒读里挖出了很大魅力，也许因为戏剧，但反正和侯麦or老洪是大不相同的。说到间离，还可以联系到一些列用人物动作或造型来建立间离的导演，从布列松到罗伊安德森等等，而滨口这种棒读间离因为对白的“接地气”而更微妙，是很厉害的创造。滨口还是更适合搞长片or长长片，我觉得Happy Hour里的读小说比这部里的要有魅力得多。
2和3挺妙的，正好可以和洪尚秀做一个对比，都是长长的对话戏，但滨口的戏剧性和设计感更强，观赏性当然也就更好，更容易让人有“我看懂了”的满足感，但问题似乎也在这里，不够知识分子了
#HKIFF# 很文学式好看，是靠对白带动故事写得最聪明的类型，偶然和想象中的关系流动无限迷人。原来自然真切的聊天感是靠整周排练出来。后方看啥都在狂笑的男子真的破坏体验
在这里这两者都通过电影化语言调和了现实与主体
人生是必然的吗？还是偶然的？抑或偶然才是必然？想象的就一定不真实吗？或者想象才是另一种真实？也许就像那句话说的，“那些按部就班的生活以外的偶然，才是人生。”
谁不向往迷人的魔法时刻呢，谁又能洒脱地接受再次见面魔法消失的样子呢
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