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.
无法忍受。这样的黑白影像，这样的自传性质的文本故事，很难不碰瓷到《罗马》，但与其相提并论起来完全不能比。同样选取社会动荡大背景下与家庭往事的融合，但本片真的做到了假模假式、工业又刻意。大环境夹杂到家庭中去，但一味通过人物台词过分强调动荡不安，就像糖衣炮弹一样。片子呈现出的不是往日生活而像是流水过程，整体太过割裂，就连冲突与平复都如此儿戏，大环境-小环境没有更好融合。过分强调小男孩作为第一客体视角，将他塞入其他客体的镜头中去。摆出太多没有意义的独特机位，塞了太多不合时宜的往日金曲，就连自传性质的迷影属性也是如此苍白无力。
4/5 第79届金球奖 电影类最佳剧情片提名
看了后悔的程度。肯尼斯布拉纳先生，您不会演也就罢了，现在连导也不会了吗？尽管剧情并不累赘，但这一个小时四十分钟的电影依旧显得无比漫长，节奏实在太差劲了。大多数情况下的黑白和彩色的转变都没有意义，所谓“电影艺术照亮动荡生活”的观点根本不需要这么表达。情绪破碎，故事刻意，仿佛揪着观众领子强迫大家认同这是一部【冲奖】片一样。
①估计大多数国人看这部电影，是因为包括奥斯卡在内的一堆电影节提名荣誉在身，没错我也在此列，但半个多世纪前北爱尔兰一条街道上某家庭的经历和少年成长故事，似乎与中国观众距离远了一些，无论是地理距离文化距离，还是情感共鸣方面的心理距离，加之全片的故事性并不强，所以前后24小时我才磨磨唧唧断断续续看完；②我对黑白片向来不太感冒，总觉得导演无非是想增加年代感（包括前阵子看的《兹山鱼谱》），但代价是失去了很多可以倚赖颜色传递的信息和意象，且平添了一份矫情和人为的匠气。电影毕竟不是平面摄影，一张黑白照片的所有信息可以在一瞬间通过注视抵达观者内心，电影表现手段是极为复杂和丰富的，放弃色彩，相当于放弃了无数种可能性。
“故乡”和“他乡”是组相对的概念。在祖父去世前，巴迪眼中的“故乡”只是贝尔法斯特，“他乡”是除了贝尔法斯特之外的任何地方；而当祖父的离世让巴迪看到了生死，“故乡”与“他乡”的意义也随之的分别扩大至“生”与“死”的层面，也许因此巴迪才能平静接受了离开贝尔法斯特的事实，也许巴迪懂得了，只要心中永恒怀揣着对故乡的记忆与怀念，“故乡”就永远不会远离、不会消失，所到即故乡。
7.7分#献给贝尔法斯特往昔的一封黑白情书💌片子中善良快乐的情绪远超那份沉重，想看后来巴蒂有没有回来娶到凯瑟琳～ p.s.怀念北爱街头漫步的快乐时光
it's actually a bit hard to understand the lines with the accent.. but still such an interesting angle... and it's amazing that some childhood memories seems never fading even after a long time. a powerful work with many heartwarming moments that still resonates with me after the movie. well, TIFF does have taste. ps. it's strange some historic events look so absurd now but at the time..
极其私人的影像回忆。通过断断续续的对话和为数不多的彩色镜头将记忆中模糊但却精确的美好甜蜜的记忆画面表述给观众，引导着观众跟随着画面一起进入自己的童年时光。一个限制在了孩童视角和童年回忆关于宗教冲突下的离开故乡出走他乡前的纠结于不安的故事，但这样的视角就注定了整部电影只能成为一颗美好的糖果，丧失了更深层次述说时代的机会......
我相信肯尼斯布拉纳说的，他确实没看过《罗马》，不然也不至于把这个片子拍成个爱尔兰版的《岁月神偷》。但他的摄影肯定看过《罗马》，不止一遍。
故乡是血地。//但我没明白弄成黑白片的必要性？
11h30 02/03/2022 à l’Utopia BDX
跳跃的情节，犹豫不绝的父母和没有下文的结局，仿佛导演翻出小男孩日记挑选几个片断拍的。正片用黑白表现出历史感，他们看的电影反倒是彩色的。满脸深深皱纹的奶奶不知是熟悉的演员真的已经垂垂老矣还是化妆效果。妈妈不仅漂亮，身材也太好了，和奶奶站在门口的一场戏，镜头从远处仰拍，哇，修长优雅
3星半，叙事结构有模仿《罗马》的痕迹，都是导演对故土情怀的私人记忆，也讨巧的加了BGM来营造氛围，只是政治背景的设立显得有些刻意，小男孩很有灵气，两位老戏骨演技很稳。
导演的戏剧出身，决定了他的风格，包括布景，台词，调度，音乐。也极其出色，尤其是爷爷和小主角的演技。
和爱尔兰出身的英国朋友一起去看的，故事的情绪很私人，我完全体会不到，顺便问了朋友许多爱尔兰历史。
太不了解爱尔兰了，黑白的回忆七分情，三分真。了解了一点点贝尔法斯特，无论哪里的人，基本的情感是共通的。整体7.6
肯导又没到总结人生的阶段，急吼拉吼。好处大概是有机会看到爱尔兰演员们用爱尔兰腔讲话。
好喜欢这部片子的质感和基调。可能没讲什么大道理，但是导演对家乡的依恋从一首首老歌，一幢幢老楼间流露出来，即使岁月变迁，即使时局动荡，贝尔法斯特永远以一个温馨美丽的地方永远留在一个可爱男孩的心里。我虽然不是爱尔兰人，对于那里的风土人情和政治历史不太熟悉，但是这部片子可以勾起每一个人的童年记忆，那个熟悉的院子，一群熟悉的伙伴，成为我永远的印记。For the ones who stayed.For the ones who left.For the ones who lost.
困得说不利索话了
作为一个前不久刚读过《什么也别说》的人，我是能够理解导演在这样一个命题下所想要表达的一些东西的，也能够理解有一些问题现在仍不便提及。
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