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.
剧本很厉害，用一个案件包裹更大的案件，个体的丑恶撕开体制的丑恶。有金句有情绪点，但手法还是陈旧了些，最后二十分钟凌乱了些。但这样的“社会现实主义”电影也可以开发系列是我所始料未及的，印度电影掌握流量密码了。
故事和反转非常精彩，内容深刻，发人深省，涵盖的主题从女性到媒体到正义到真相，再到制度，涵盖之广，令人嗔目，值得学习。但影片本身质量一言难尽，逻辑上bug到离谱，庭审上俩律师各说各的就离谱，剪辑叙事毫无水平可言，像是一篇全靠配乐烘托的大型PPT。
披着科幻外壳，讲的却是一个关于守护的温情故事，末日里的真善美。
电影里有我敬佩的美国演员 、喜欢的小动物、通人性的机器人……还需要什么呢？看就完事了
3.5。前80分钟是非常普通的印度电影，配乐紧凑到吵得慌，即使刚开庭律师的辩护词也不过是老生常谈的“程序正义”和“实体正义”，以为这片子也就止步到这里。直到后50分钟真相层层浮出水面，先是给我们这些“凡事有消息就热衷发帖、被操纵产生某种可以利用的情绪的网民”一记大耳光，然后再抛出一个问题“媒体的存在是为了报道真相，还是媒体所说的才是真相？”。再之后掀开表面引导向更深的真相，说到底一切问题都与ZZ有关，“体制在口人”、“让提出问题的人沉默、给讨论的人戴上手铐”。世风日下无新鲜事，13亿的印度或15亿的..面对的问题实则都差不多。最后几幕被害的女教授和对学生说“每个人都有慷慨发表意见的权利，但是你有勇气付诸实践吗？”。现实是，我们大多数都是那场大学会议上想伸手表赞同但又放下手的、沉默的人。
“这就是政治。为了赢，我会玩任何肮脏的游戏，政治家最大的武器知道是什么吗？情感!公众的情感!是疯狂，他们的思想，智慧还有决策都会被这种疯狂推翻。当他们因为这种情绪而忘记一切的时候，我们就能实现统治!”
虽然冗长又有许多逻辑硬伤，但反转写得还不错，就是最后两位主角的身份揭秘太快太乱，完全可以剪掉前边很多重复的慢镜头来充实这部分，可以看得出主创的爱国心，印度电影开始走出自己的道路了，恭喜
我们现在看印度电影，看韩国电影都陷入了一种下意识的“相对尺度”感叹，但是从“绝对尺度”上来讲，很多片子的质量是不行的，只是因为他们触碰的议题使得我们给出高分，这其实很令人感慨。这个电影铺满了音乐，每十分钟就安排慢镜头煽情，从任何角度去看都很陈旧。人们的共情共的都是电影之外的东西。
我还记得在马上要到达洛杉矶的时候，芬奇快不行了，他们在车下晒着久违的不会被紫外线灼伤的太阳，杰夫说自己做了一个梦。芬奇惊呆，他一个机器人竟然做梦了，，这个时候芬奇才意识到杰夫不单单是机器人，他是一个人了。
电影牛逼就牛逼在能将女性处境、教育腐败、政治阴谋、体制溃烂、种族歧视、煽动人心、媒体操控、正义边界、法律公信等等这一系列我们一般都不会碰的话题通过一桩女教师命案完美的串起来了。抛开上诉题材不说，电影节奏、悬疑性、人物塑造方面都属上乘。
当人与人没了沟通，对陌生人就会产生天然的不信任。
内容有惊喜。开始以为是简单的除暴安良、争取女权，后来又开始宣传司法程序的正义，接着又说政客和愚民、舆论操控，最后又来以暴制暴、我要复仇。内容比较多，值得一看。缺点是故事主角不断切换，不怎么连贯。
前一小时纯属铺垫，后面开始精彩。按这个程度应该还有续集可以拍。
优点说完了，作为电影，拍得真的不怎么滴。印度似乎很喜欢这种无数反转的剧本，就像之前的调音师，这种戏码用到点子上画龙点睛，但用烂了，除了不可避免的数不清的bug以外，我说好听了就是工匠感，说难听了就是消费智商来了，这故事拍得就是流水账，只需要刻意隐藏信息然后一个一个抖包袱反转就行了，当然也许为了迎合市场和口味而为之，那恰恰就拉低了电影的水准。
前半程之冗余也让节奏崩作一盘稀泥，
末世下，知道自己时日无多的发明家制造了一个机器人，来保护自己的爱犬。这个故事梗概就挺“无敌”的。人类文明毁于科技，希望又传承于科技，探讨自然与生命，救赎与希望。所以看似一人一狗一机器人的简单公路片下，又触到了很广阔的命题。其实换个角度想，机器人被创造出来，逐渐变得越来越拥有人性温度，这可以让它更胜任自己的角色，可另一方面，它越来越像一个人活在这孤独的末世中，谁来陪伴它呢。很难说人到底是自私，还是博爱，又或者有关于爱，都是自私的。
让提出问题的人闭嘴的政治，让指责的人戴上手铐的政治，但无论你如何试图让他们闭嘴，无论你把他们关进哪座监狱，都会有人提出问题，而且必须有人回答
當法律與體制的根基有問題，當你以為的真相是騙局，拿什麼來實現那所謂的正義？！本以為是反應社會現實的刑偵人員被高層壓制以身抗法匡扶正義，結果是一出政治操弄的陰謀騙局，這個大反轉做的還是非常棒的。從講女性在印度的困境到當局肆意操弄愚民騙局最後走向整個國家的政治體製種性種族歧視問題，雖然庭審為了主題和情緒過於舞台話而沒有現實感，最後幾分鐘的埋筆卻有點主人公復仇爽劇的意思了，雖然還挺期待續集但的確有點分散了之前庭審的註意度。
案中案，重重反转，把原本已经拍俗了的题材拔高了立意
近两年印度这种社会题材电影，总是想装进去的内容太多，满则溢，再加上全程垫bgm不停渲染情绪的拍法，总归看多了会让人疲劳。
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