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.
前半段昏昏欲睡 后面青春爱情开始有趣 结尾的奔跑和回忆杀不错。导演很细腻，但节奏有点太缓慢了。
压抑冷漠已经无法再爱的男主的人生最初底色竟也是纯情少男少女的戏码，那时他拥有两情相悦的爱人，拥有几个好朋友，工作还不是那么一成不变令人窒息。生活从来不会因为两人合拍，就让他们变得更顺风顺水战无不胜。生活残酷的地方在于，它远比两个人的相处要深远复杂得多。(时间倒退到与初恋女友第一次亲密之时，那份腼腆让人心动
在酒后的路上遇到曾经熟悉的人 路过发生过无数故事的街头 听到和曾经女友一起喜欢的歌 想起送花的好友 一起租的车 一起打的工 一起过的马路 第一次亲密时的心动还记得吗 我们都不想成为大人 我们也都成为了大人
就是跌跌撞撞迷迷惘惘成了普通的大孩子。身体内，那些尚未成佛的词语也将成为，普通的我们的一部分，终生。
拍的太浅了，浮于表面，反而印证了这很无聊啊……
导演本人也比照片胖一点，看起来非常“普通”。
《薄荷糖》在前，即为珠玉，《我们都无法成为大人》的压力自然不小，当然也许本就没有相较之的压力，但是这种文学气浓厚的风格，确实无法让人忘记对标片。但是《薄荷糖》在回到过去时加入了时代背景与那唏嘘的人生某个晚上对一生变迁的影响 ，而《我们都无法成为大人》则秉承着日本电影那一贯的慢去获得情感的初始，可是既然是纯情感，情感的终点未必是起点哦，于是乎再多的细节铺陈也没有让我喜欢上森山。而且日本的大男子主义之风啥时候能改改？！21世纪快22世纪了呀！
在佐藤视角勾串出支离破碎般的故事，虽然紧扣了主题，并且这个人物也算是丰富有层次，但看完后可能不满足于只是男主视角，想要看到香后来如何了，因为香这个人物其实是很有代入感和共情的，所以自然而然也会比较关心女生那边，但并未展现。其实从原本电影来说也是能够理解，但总觉得少了些什么。
自证有趣真的是现代社会最恐怖事件，妹子给你操就是有趣，给比人操就是普通？真是白瞎了小沢健二的歌。
花束般的恋爱的主题+薄荷糖的叙事，emmm
年轻时 做着工资很低的工作 为了和女朋友兜风 会逃班 长大了 做着领导的工作 为了躲避结婚 会故意在见家长的时候迟到 不是我们不能成为大人啊 是我们不想啊
导演本人也比照片胖一点，看起来非常“普通”。
今年的惊喜之作，比花束更安静，但更有力量。
把男主生活中经历的人和事以年为单位打碎了讲述。
但也确实是文字先行了，很容易感受只是扁皮，尤其是倒叙结构最后被破坏。可以说是各种回忆的叙述方式都存在了。镜头语言和音乐也有滥用。时间感的处理也有点不明显。
看得人很难受。倒叙看一生很可怕，仿佛人生都是无意义的。之前想要做了不起的人，现在觉得成为普通人也很好。不是不想长大而是想慢一点。男主还算有有些文艺和特别的经历，不然人生过完回忆起来都是苍白。
普通如我，绚烂总归是少数，没曾想被尾崎丰的歌圈粉了。
这部电影人间真实…真实到不想推荐给任何人…
很适合现在的我观看。究竟要如何接受自己的普通。“搭上计程车回到现实吧”，可是计程车上又放起了曾经的歌。
可是，这往烂掉了的青春故事上加一句浓墨重彩的梦呓，不恰恰是最大人的做派吗？
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