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.
3.5. 原著黨全程吐槽。還行，是因為Lucien和幻滅的底子在不可能太不行，但是它改了的設定和為此新增的場次，消除了幻滅裡很多複雜微妙的氣質。Lucien是有過選擇和經歷的，Louis更加是完全不是那樣的。
He stopped hoping, and started living. Everything has a price, even for the eternal restplace. In Paris, things are on sale, on display. There are trades everywhere, you trade your soul for money, for sex addiction, for social status, even for a little respect. Never learned the rules, you trade everything for nothing. Game over, illusions predues.
贵族文化盛行的时代，乡下的穷小子即使有着出色的才华，被巴黎的大染缸污染后还幻想能够左右逢缘恢复母亲的姓名登上贵族的平台，结果被人出卖失去了一切，最后回到了开始的地方。电影把巴黎社会各色各样的人进行了描绘，历史感很浓厚，虽然时间长了点，但静下心来还是能沉浸其中。
一个充满灵性的青年诗人，为了生存、为了欲望、为了虚荣、为了复仇、为了爱与救赎，在五光十色、光怪陆离的巴黎罪恶大道，从默默无闻乡下少年，凭借自身的才华与努力，成为了举世瞩目的著名记者。而后又因内心的迷茫，被各种饱含欲望、嫉妒、阴谋的敌人撕裂，落寞地谢幕。这是青年诗人的幻灭，更是复辟王朝的幻灭。巴尔扎克的内容总少不了金句。
The illusion called capitalism
好看，故事完整，流畅，也不枯燥无聊，大概是那个年代的氛围很足，男主很帅，多兰也帅，阶级问题在那个时代影响很大，男主主要是飘了，如果稳一点见好就收就好了，从无到有再到无，经典。
很久没有看到过经典文学名著改编的新电影了，改编自法国作家巴尔扎克的同名小说，今年凯撒奖最佳影片，拍得即古典优雅又现代意识流，非常值得观看！
能把Balzac的这么一部长篇小说（一部分）拍出来，就不容易了。人物众多，服化道考究，演员们的表演也算到位。年轻人如何成长，追求什么？现在看来，与那时真是所差无几。只要特权阶层拥有足够的财富，追求虚荣的Lucien们就会前赴后继的。又见到Xavier Dolan，脱去稚气，有点儿认不出来，不做导演了吗～
剧作干净的没有一点多余的水分 即使很早猜到结局也会很耐心的看下去 节奏和视听语言都很不错
GFF22# 完成度不错的原著改编，不难看但也没有特别出彩的地方，唯一是旁白不错。前半个小时我不停想到红与黑，穷小子和贵妇人的一些经典故事，倒是感觉挺适合改成法剧…
导演对功底要多加一颗星，制作精良 ，令人观后会有深思。 一切为了利益的存在都将会幻灭。
最大的收获是让我现场下单《幻灭》特装书。听上去很熟悉的故事模版：一个家世存疑的年轻人离开家乡来到喧嚣华丽的巴黎，凭借着自己的英俊和才智崭露头角过了一段挥金如土的如梦生活———直到一切幻灭，尘归尘土归土，于是他踏上回家的路，stop hoping and begin living。Lucien与他的小报记者朋友们不同的是他身份的双重性，他是发自内心的相信自己拥有高贵的血统和远大的理想，是男爵夫人口中的one of us，但他卑微的父系出生注定了他永远不可能被高傲的上流社会所接受：那是一个贵族们感到自己的权威被新贵们挑战的时代，幻灭的不仅是Lucien对美的追求，也是巴黎贵族们的万代千秋。纸醉金迷的生活和不可一世的优雅已经渐近尾声，他们的成功不过是保王党最后的回光返照：醒不过来的其实是这个时代。
他将停止幻想，他将开始生活，他将找到内心的力量
有点当初看香水的感觉了！荒诞又精致，完全不会闷
节奏被古典配乐带得克制而柔缓，唱一剧曾经时代里小人物努力向上爬，最终被卷入湖底的悲歌。全片画面很美，不喜欢的是喋喋不休的画外音，听似辅助理解，实则总嫌抢戏跳戏。
笔锋与爱，两种力量的较量。却输给了政治家！
巴尔扎克看穿了欲望的本质啊……一切的龌龊和堕落几百年没变过。有了巴尔扎克的文本，电影已经成功一半了
声色犬马，物欲横流。空中楼阁，一朝倾塌。巴尔扎克的原著讽刺辛辣，针砭时弊。如今改编成影视，却中规中矩，鲜有亮点。个别或犀利或有趣的台词也不过是仰仗了原著的功劳。所以亦只能说是无功无过而已。不过值得一提的是，多兰的角色发挥空间不大，但是作为一个配角却屡屡出场都能抢走些许主角的风采，确实表现得不错，抓住了人物的精髓，在有限的表演空间里做到最好，难怪能收获凯撒奖的提名。不过本片在一众电影节大热中拿下凯撒奖最佳影片，多少可以见得凯撒奖还是有些保守的。
7分。原来是巴尔扎克的原著电影，难怪看着很有质感，但电影本身却没任何精彩之处。看这片不如去读原著，真心这样觉得。
明明是两个世纪以前的故事，但搬到现在核心却一点也不过时。只能说技术在向前飞速发展，而人类却一直在原地踏步（一些国家甚至在开历史倒车...🤨
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