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.
前一个小时以为看到神作了，但是后面似乎找不到一个足够怪力乱神的叙事方式来支撑它诡诞的开头结尾，让中间的部分显得冗长不堪，骗中骗的剧情也过分简单，也没能展现出心灵魔术的奇妙所在，陀螺在剧情片掌控上的空白暴露严重，真正好看的部分又游离于主线之外。这过长的片长，也只是为了一种美学的展示而做了拉长。即使我再说自己是陀螺粉，分也确实给不到五星了，（但我还是好喜欢啊）。
竟然鲁尼和大魔王没搞姬，那这片子拍出来又有什么意义呢？
用一个小时为男主交代前史，致使整个电影完全失衡。
多出来的40分钟得到了精致的埋线和铺垫，也带来了刻意和冗长。
最大优点是服化道，是真的给我强烈愉悦感的那种服化道。相较于原作的改动几乎全是赘笔，仿佛是嫌原作不够通俗直白，导演加入战争背景，戳破男主“双赢”谎言，甚至直接加入男主身份背景并让他杀人。精神分析的意图太明显，反而让原作最迷人的暧昧内核和宿命感荡然无存。好在收尾收得比原作干净利索。
7/5/2022 @ 高先電影院。關關難過關關過，btw女實習生係正既，難怪老闆會潛規則….
再次验证对陀螺的欣赏无能。只可惜了一票超级大牌。
[명씨네] 这不挺好吗。即便引线埋得并不深，也隐隐猜到最后会出现那句台词(temporary job)，结局还是非常有冲击力。完全招架不住心理层面的惊悚，或许因为逐渐感受到堕落是一种本能，看到人的贪欲呈指数式膨胀，他可以那么轻易地臣服、溃退、作恶、失去人形，就憋闷得慌。陀螺的片讨厌和喜欢的好像各占一半，但不得不说整体性都很强，适合“大片”的无短板技术型。而且他的“暗黑”元素也并不是奇观式的堆砌，很多时候观看的不适是因为发现了欲望的灰色地带，不像有的导演只为展现自己的私人癖好（...）可惜的是篇幅已经做到这么长了，但对三位女演员的刻画都不够立体。
导演一贯喜欢的重口风😆节奏真慢。。上一个因为节奏慢没看完的还是一个明星的诞生😂
巴登很好，本片也可以看，但我真没什么想说的——把员工当私人奴隶？把实习生当性资源？对老婆不忠？对维权下属用尽毒手？欺骗、控制、企业德不配位？西班牙资本家真是堕落。是的，但你回来多搜点新闻多看两眼报纸，去仲裁走一圈，你会发现巴登这老板居然还算不错的。
预算如此如此充足，所有重要配角全是知名的性格演员演的…
“You don't fool people Stan, they fool themselves.”
绝好的复古风格，摄影、服装俱佳。凯特布兰切特油美出了新高度。男主在追名逐利之中迷失自我，金钱、美色、贪欲，到头来都是一场空，黄粱梦后，最终只能认清自己，只是归属于那个破败的马戏团，不过到这里都能猜到结尾了，可是他为啥非得明知陷进的情况下再去做“怪人”呢？
前面的铺垫确实太过冗长 导致结尾没办法撑得起来
犹豫在两三星之间，鉴于我算半个陀螺粉丝，那还是两星了。这个片子的观感实际上比《猩红山峰》还要差，至少《猩》建立了一套“红土为血”的概念奇观，以及剧情上骨科这个悬疑点，《玉面情魔》则是啥都没有。已经不要求他还能给出《鬼童院》或者《潘神》那种有多异内容的文本，这次他连自己最擅长的构建一个怪形都做不到。我也认为翻拍是需要导演有足够多的新解读空间才有必要做的事，陀螺这次则像给原故事写同人设定。所有人物都是空洞的，浪费了这么多好的配角。主演库珀更是灾难级，木脸贯穿2个半小时。陀螺在拿了不令人信服的威尼斯和奥斯卡大奖之后，更需要墨西哥三杰的其他二人帮他做制片。如果纯粹是玩票之作的话，那就更失望了。
本来还在琢磨为啥把背景铺垫得如此详尽，甚至到能说冗长的地步。突然灵光一闪—我看你个陀螺就是单纯想拍马戏团！(当然确实也很适合拍
华丽的空壳 属于眼睛得到了全方位享受 看完没留下任何余味的那类
Mister, I was born for it.
因果报应，天道轮回，作恶的人最终沦为了马戏团的最底层的怪人。叙事结构上，前半段马戏团生涯的篇幅有点多，不过倒是也很精彩。
好在铺垫够长，马戏团的戏整整用了一小时，享受极了。不好在离开马戏团后情节有点普通，和铺垫相比收尾太快了。万万没想到在大魔王和小白兔竟然就一场对手戏。
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