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.
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4星，题材不错，虽说是30年前的事件，但仍然值得致敬， 就是影片时间有点太长了，当电视剧看了。
印度版《辩护人》，真的羡慕印度能拍这样的电影
杰伊比姆实则是一种为平等而斗争的精神。
警察在监狱里虐待犯人看得挺难受的，真实度很高。音乐起得太多太没创意，这些印度片已经套路化了，这样的电影看过太多了，最后的神奇收尾也让我丝毫没有了爽感，大部分似曾相识的情节也逐渐将我的观影乐趣消耗殆尽。
看了n部日剧后改印度片换换口味，听说是小众高分片，片名着实劝退（个人预感这部在若干年后也许会像《五杀瞒天记》和最近重火的《魔幻时刻》后突然火了），但实际却非常震撼。像印度版的《辩护人》，但感觉本片更胜一筹。还分了两天才看完，第一天没看完以后就去搜剧透看仨人到底怎么了。ps.律师演员很帅。不过看了影评才知道电影结局给美化了，现实的结局跟电影还是相去甚远。
7/10
我们看到一样的罪恶，却不一定能得到一样的结果。世界永远需要有勇气的理想主义
有着印度特色的片长和穿插着特有的歌舞，缺点是其中的正面角色塑造过于的完美，简直不像是现实生活中的人，考虑到现实原型还在世，这种操作也可接受。片中展现的警察的粗暴做法，犹如黑社会一般的压迫底层群众，这些山区的原住民几乎没有作为人的权利，不能上学，不能投票，没有种姓与之对应的名字，这就是达特利群体的生活现实。国家有法度，警察视之无物；国家禁止歧视，底层自发的歧视。达特利们被诬陷偷窃，为其他人顶罪。国家机器竟然用酷刑折磨嫌疑人，人被活活打死，还被冠上越狱。韩国辩护人是对人zz参与权利的捍卫，印度的则是翻案，捍卫作为人的权利。本片根据真实事件改编，律师还是印共的活跃成员，长期为底层民众免费辩护，后来做到过邦最高法官，片子中删去了这个，另外作为遗孀的她并没有得到一所新的房子，希望她的生活能有所改善吧。
幸好最高法有良心，社会意义大于影片本身质量，但是人家敢拍能拍呀！
“魔鬼并不存在，而是人创造出来的，那肯定是人按照自己的模样创造的”。
致敬每一位为底层人民奋斗的英雄，致敬每一个推广赞美这种行为的艺术家
没有程序正义，实质正义就是一句空话，没有民权，民生就是板上鱼肉。电影中的人权律师是一名共产党员，但这中国，这种角色会被打上公知或自由派标签。公平正义就是公平正义，没有所谓自由派或左派之分。正如雨果说:“在绝对正确的革命之上还有一个绝对正确的人道主义。”
7/10
不行，各种尖叫得头疼。走向很明确的电影，真实的事件却把人物拍得那么纸片那么假。
也确实会让人想到我们的九十年代是什么样？
观影过程中一直在思考为什么美国大公司的CEO都是印度人，难道我们中国人不配当苹果的、facebook、谷歌的ceo吗，我的结论是到顶尖人才这个层面拼的就不是赚钱的能力，而是内心的修为和信仰，将连数字都不识的村民和莽荒时代的警察们，那么落后的印度拍出来的，却是的印度精英的电影人。
印度版的辩护人。很有力量的一部电影，讲述为了底层人民的正义和公平而反抗压迫。另外，印度好像可以随便游行抗议，而且是可以挥着共产党旗抗议的啊……
“我可以为我们部门付出所有的东西，
别人95年的错误在21年出来承认了，我们66的错误却还只字不能提。 我们与恶的距离里面，替精神病杀人犯辩护和找原因，被吹上了天的王赦，在杰伊比姆面前，就像个刚学会走路的婴儿
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