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.
前方的那把，原来是门的把手——通向D死亡的门——它打开了…
今年颁奖季里唯一用对了黑白影像的电影，视觉层面在努力挣脱已经乏善可陈的文本，这大概是仅有的亮点，剩下大段大段的念白配上舞台剧的风格就只能狂翻白眼……
麦克白的陌生化。
莎翁的《麦克白》讲述的是一则命运悲剧，究其悲剧成因的主源，无疑为一种性格蒙上了审慎的罪名，三女巫的所谓命运预言，揭示了麦克白与麦克白夫人一直以来的野望-权力的渴望，且为其野望的实现作了充分的背书。
同样是以麦克白为蓝本，麦克白夫妇的表演远不及《蜘蛛巢城》里的三船敏郎和山田五十铃。
科恩兄（没有弟）这版高度风格化 美学价值和惊悚感相得益彰。黑白画面倒也看不出来是麦克白还是麦克黑。
比起《绿衣骑士》，以极简美学，比其空洞的符号堆砌更加光秃；以惨白和浓厚的光学，比其更缺乏生命的涌现。
《麦克白的悲剧》改编自莎士比亚的经典悲剧，讲述了一位弑君者/麦克白深受权欲、幻念与恐惧折磨的故事。
唉看到star hide your fire的台词还是忍不住想听roll away your stone，确实是我最喜欢的贵团歌了。对莎士比亚改编我的感想基本是又欺负文盲不识字，虽然科恩大哥这版算很通俗易懂了，但还是看得费劲
p.s.好的，我们已经看过了黑人演的麦克白，估计不久的将来我们也可以看到黑人演的维纳斯，默罕默德二世，明治天皇和林肯。不知道将来有没有希望看到黑人演的希特勒，白人演的马丁·路德·金，以及同性恋演的耶稣和跨性别者演的J·K·罗琳。
看的第二版Macbeth 为了看daniel craig版的百老汇版做准备
最近又给学生讲了一遍麦克白，再来看这版电影。配乐，摄影，Washington的演绎，看得我起了一身鸡皮疙瘩 。
是一部极致的影像化戏剧，美感都建立在影像技术升华的戏剧形式上，而精彩的戏剧化电影应该是黑泽明的《蜘蛛巢城》。
3.5星。虽然极简的黑白影像很有个性，但整体观影过程仍然感觉电影是对舞台剧的简单移植。电影本身的力量可能来自于莎翁戏剧文本的力量，除此之外过于简单粗暴的淡出转场，造成了荧幕特有的代入感和共情感缺位。表演上佳，但不统一，割裂感较重。有的戏剧性风格很严重，有的则电影生活化。总而言之，这部片子像是扛着摄像机摄录了一部不错的舞台剧。
戏剧改编的优秀范本，一方面抓住戏剧精髓，一方面实现电影自觉。视听语言的震撼，使得该片完全不逊色于舞台现场。
8分吧...画面极致...古英语跟不上是一个问题...没看过原著对理解有一些影响...太讲究构图和台词，少了电影更擅长的特写...另，感觉丹泽尔情绪表达基本靠吼...
极简场景和摄人光影是本片独特气质的最大贡献者，其余部分没什么亮点。空镜最震撼
绝佳的美术和氛围营造使本片充满了电影感，但故事和人物刻画都不足，演员表演上乘。
这就是学院派吗？影像逼格满满的，摄影，场景极具风格化和美学效果，极简主义的几何建筑构型，黑白画面配合烟雾缭绕的气氛。台词很古风和剧场化，是莎翁原台词还是新写的？这部可能是典型的形式大于内容？因为我看完后最大感受不是故事带来的享受与震撼，而是对美术摄影等所具匠气的佩服，而改编自同一剧本的黑泽明的《蜘蛛巢城》在电影化和叙事上显然做得更好，更多的体现了贪婪欲望罪恶等在麦克白命运中造就的悲剧。
科恩兄弟第一次分开指导的作品。哥哥的美学造诣没得说，但很难讲这是不是以牺牲了部分叙事达到的效果。原来的剧本足够经典，但这部电影依然很好的阐释了戏剧和电影并非矛盾冲突对立的关系。life but a walking shadow.
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