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.
影片将一群被主流视野所忽视的、不愿意背负沉重房贷压力而选择房车流浪四处打工的现代游牧人群的生活状态展现在了观众面前，讲述了他们的生存哲学与生活之道。也许影片对于他们的生存状况进行了一些过于诗意的美化，强调他们选择这种生活方式的精神需求而非物质限制，但仍能让人感受到无处不在的孤寂。选择这种生活无论是主动抑或被动，都需要强大的内心。正如主角所说:"No, I'm not homeless. I'm just houseless. Not the same thing, right?" 他们不是没有家，他们只是把家随身携带，选择不断上路。
多一颗星给导演赵婷。你为无数女性展现了更宽阔的视野和生活的可能。
这种淡淡的风格挺治愈的，走在路上,看到后面却有开始怀疑，这是一种逃避还是救赎，不是被美化的西部牛仔，而是社会性的放逐，被社会放弃的那些人，我们该怎么办，导演发现了问题用美化的滤镜展现给大家，但是化脓的伤疤不会成为金色的勋章
到底什么才是活着呐
像纪录片一般，跟随着科恩嫂试着去理解这些现代游牧民族。不要试图用理性去解构他们的动机，选择游牧本身就充满了浪漫。大自然和同胞的友情是对伤痛最好的治愈。
沒有說甚麼故事，但呈現了一個疏離卻容易產生共鳴的情緒狀態。/ May have marked the end of hippie era?
想起了《美国甜心》，想起我们这一代人，这是我们的未来吗？
定居是生活，否定生活的人只是houseless，被生活否定的人才是homeless。弗恩不是无家可归，有妹妹可以接纳她，也有情人Dave邀请她。她的可能性不是被否定的，是她否定了可能性。和杰克凯鲁亚克的嬉皮突破界限寻求刺激的在路上不同，无依之地的现代游民是带着创伤在路上。无论哪种在路上，这种生活都是拥抱陌生，讴歌不确定性，这是根植于西方游牧文化基因之上的，而我们是这种文化的局外人，难以共情。
"There's no final goodbye."
很喜欢这部电影的气质，广角镜头将人搁置在广袤的西部平原上，给人以无限的苍凉渺小感，而手持摄影以及碎片化的生活叙事赋予了影片别样的纪实性，女主为了逃离家人，选择与爱人踏上征途，又为了爱人定居，最终又是因为爱人（的离逝）再次踏上旅途，变得是地点，不变的是那颗心，只要在路上，就一定会重逢
lovebifan：让我想起《猜火车》里的那段经典台词，生活中就是有人不想买他妈的大电视，而选择不停地在路上，看群山，看飞鸟，looking ahead, to the day you die.
片子拍的克制，情绪在风景与眼神间流转，孤独又浪漫。
只要人能呼吸眼不盲
公司地铁家的996上班族
甘草棒可以帮助戒烟。
总之是好电影！
两个字：自然。影片的主要元素很美国，房车、公路、营地、流浪等等。但和那些为了反叛或逃避的文青式“在路上”不同，主角的流浪很自然，这就是她的生活本身，尽管她有她的落魄和孤独，但并不可怜。正如她和小女孩说的，她是houseless，而不是homeless
Home. Is it just a word, or is it something you carry within you? 漂泊不是无家可归，而是带着家上路。期待很高，但看完略有些失望。电影通片“情绪流”，缺少真正有力量的文本支撑；视听方面给我的感觉是中规中矩，钢琴配乐不贴剧情且在很多时候都显得多余（正面例子是断背山的吉他配乐）。相似题材更喜欢另一位女导演Debra Granik的那部《不留痕迹》。
被悲伤孤独抽离后的私人救赎之旅。沿路的同类，兀自的山峦，远方的冷空气。回忆也许美，可是正在飞走对不对。
EP.22-26 《柱众会议》
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