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.
3.5/5 “There is no way to Shangri-La from our parts of Belfast.” “Go. Go now. Don’t look back.” 全片最爱的还是Judy Dench的两句台词，后者我哭到失语。
对这种电影没有耐心，抱歉。影像如果不是黑白的，估计会整个看起来像电视电影（。）好白，好男，连政治都没有想好好讲--肯尼斯布拉纳的导演作品绝对不会让你失望，因为它们都无趣得相似。
一个人跑到电影院刷了Belfast
儿童电影，不能以成人的标准来衡量。小孩子喜欢才是硬道理。
好戳我啊！立马找了Van Morrison 的专辑来听！
从开场城市宣传片一样的PPT开始就可以感受到导演的平庸，黑白画面的使用似乎是在掩盖棚景的胶感，时而使用儿童视角时而脱离，非常杂乱琐碎，想到哪拍到哪。用了北爱的历史冲突和家庭的经济状况做为背景，但就只拍了表面的冲突与状况，完全没有其他更深或者更多的交代，所有的沉重都被淋上了糖水，苦难与歌唱是割裂的，让人无所适从导演的表达，治愈吗？这真是导演的私人记忆与感情，旁人很难共鸣。Judi Dench贡献了全片最感人的表演，她的眼神为本片增加了许多层次。我个人不太喜欢小演员的表演。
震惊我在电影里看到了一部宣传片，恐怕对电影的根本理解就有问题，最可怕的是平庸，都是奥斯卡入围，导演功力光跟甘草披萨比就差了好几个LEVEL
Black and White, yet more powerful.
7分电影。不是所有关于童年的黑白电影都是低配《罗马》。导演很显然没有要想在电影加入一堆映射，就真诚怀恋一下童年。糖水一样的故事，完美的卡司，轻松地观影体验，对于我这样的普通观众来说，很完美了。
笑、泪、爱、离别都揉进了琐事里，这是布拉纳童年的创伤、是他写给故乡和亲人的情书，也是他在这个分裂混乱冷漠的世界里，送给观众的礼物。#爷爷和奶奶演得未免也太好了。#口音真的有点难懂，打算做个中文字幕
嗯…小朋友看看挺好的 我这个22的人怎么会被朋友拉去看这个呢 哭笑不得🥲
画风真不错👍陪伴三个小朋友看的电影她们分别打出一百颗星一千颗星的高分😂
Kenneth Branagh真是个没什么影像创造力的导演，没看到对于故乡的眷恋，只看到一个作者的自恋。（单押x3
没能看进去，肯尼思·布拉纳的《八月》。★★★/6
还是舒服的。海报说明一些问题，刀剑与盾牌。爱尔兰的人民不只贝尔法斯特，贝尔法斯特却有着肯尼斯·布拉纳。故事怎样讲是他的自由意识，对内容不做评说。不过音乐很好听，怪不得他拍的影片都比别人浪漫一些……
北爱尔兰版罗马，get yourself to the moon
远超预期 观感好过同类型的「Roma」「Licorice Pizza」，黑白摄影和运镜没什么特别的意图，纯粹的为美而美，看起来没什么负担。电影院放映的大众款商业片是很多人童年的电影初遇，笨拙的OST插入方式显得片子很质朴。前半段故土的日常零碎和冲突都在为后半段家庭决定作情感铺垫，所以第二幕Balfe对异乡的迷茫、第三幕Dornan关于爱的解读才会那么感人。比起片子地域性质的科普，旧时光的缱绻怀恋更打动到我，在后疫情时代得到表彰，也是因为大家都需要这样简单而略带伤感的电影去找回一些曾经拥有的美好罢。
《汪汪队立大功大电影》🐶
平坦的黑白画面，庄重的构图，摄影已经饱含深情。疫情给Branagh一次将心比心的机会，但他骨子里依然是个showman，做不到/不习惯纯粹的内省，所以还离Terence Davies有很大差距。差快20岁又如何，Dench阿姨就不能搞姐弟恋么…… 3.5/5
mark一下，四岁儿子第一次进电影院，全程专注，电影挺棒的，情节紧扣笑点颇多，不过一小时后他说不想看了就离场了，回家后问他，说是看累了。
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