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.
就这样，一个小故事在这个精巧的万花筒中折射反射，散发着多姿多彩的迷人思绪。
在所有新片里，只有阿莫多瓦拍的不像新片，没有被时间耍得团团转。他电影里总有宁静，他是他自己的守护者，时间在他身旁也悄然凝固。
在本片中佩妮洛普克洛兹的表演还是比不上杰西卡查斯坦在《塔米菲的眼睛》中的表演的。
阿莫多瓦垮的速度比起刘镇伟来说还是慢一点，但是这部故事已经很普通很普通了，还不如空乘情人那么癫狂来的有趣
非常扎实，故事性很强，俩女主，明线暗线交织得也算成功。最后一幕黑屏上价值观，还是有点突兀
《平行母亲》，乍一看集狗血之大成。出轨男主老婆癌症，女主独自生小孩，和女二孩子错抱，其中一个宝宝还死了。女二的孩子是被同校男生强迫怀上的，父母为了女孩的声誉选择默不作声。女主和女二喜欢上了彼此并同居……可是，竟然也不觉得突兀。阿莫多瓦的电影最可贵处大约就是不评判，不说教并且永怀善意。我们总要撕碎谎言，直面痛苦，迎接新生。影片的色彩真美，而贯穿其中的长枪党屠杀乱葬岗挖掘事件，大约才是导演的真正意图——这部电影是对年轻人叙述的一种方式，他们必须看一看过去。
C＋/ 作为有明确政治关切的作品应该是不如自己以前的《活色生香》的，但阿莫多瓦的方法和二十多年前也已然不同。事件之间若即若离的关系不是问题，因为他完全可以靠对时间的拆解、重组与勾连将一些细微动作的强度和盘托出，从而迫出秘密破裂一刻的多层共鸣。问题可能反而在于两位女性的角力有些失衡：女配的功能就像那顶银色短发一样昭然若揭，而全无克鲁兹那般迂回却敞开的神秘感。牵引力几乎是单调的，因而失去了情绪的涌动。相比之下，那个割裂的“平行”关系，反而在最后孩童对骸骨的凝视中，以叹息的、稚拙的、疲惫的姿态，流淌出方死方生的力量。
4.0 阿莫多瓦神奇之處就在於所有女性角色不管戲份多還是少，在他的電影裡總能緊緊吸引你抓住你的心神，每一個角色都動人。剪輯分寸感太好了（可惜尾段匆忙，隨著與安娜那通電話之後就匆匆圓尾了）母系歷史記憶與母體孕育這一平行對比的相互交織還是有動人之處的
有点像活埋，中间确实被吓到了，但是设计的太刻意了，总体来说不是很好看。
阿莫多瓦真的老了，上部电影是回忆童年，这部电影则是关于历史、家国、传承、血缘（当然还有soapy melodrama）看《平行母亲》就像看西班牙金星主持1818黄金眼，所谓的“叛经离道”只是外表，本质上还是聊家长里短的狗血八卦，传达传统价值观。
3.5。奇情和美術在阿莫多瓦的電影裡早已不新鮮了，比別人處理得輕巧對他來說不過是及格標準。倘若這一部的亮點在於以當下寫歷史，對歷史成因的深入探究顯然非其所長，或至少志不在此。
TA们其中一个说：“看看那个老处女”
明暗线确实交织的不好，阿莫多瓦想表达的内容有点超过影片本身的容量，或者说，夹杂了不必要的元素。但不论如何阿莫多瓦就是阿莫多瓦，女性视角下的细腻和母性的爱就是他最大的利器。
75/100 有不少过于机械的情节，但Janis商品摄影师的身份及其产生的引导比较有趣，同样是通过照片图像进行考古，奢侈品或模特广告图似乎是瞬时的，但持摄影机的人在某个瞬间总会被唤起一种意识，即对历史和记忆的求真：且大家对历史是既知的，要做的只不过是去承认既定的历史，而重点不在挖掘，毕竟每个人都知道冲突曾经的存在，西班牙祖国只不过是那些不同的母亲而已。
除了几个转折点外大部分内容都很流水账，而且最后接近二十分钟跑题严重。明显故事概念没熬熟就拍出来，大概也是因为阿莫多瓦这种多产导演不管如何还是会按时间出作品而不会磨太久。
两段故事。一个关于生命的未来，两个母亲两个孩子，被抱错之后产生的羁绊；一个关于生命的过去，被遗忘的乱葬坑里埋着逝去的祖辈。死亡与新生，历史与现在，阿莫多瓦举重若轻，没有过度诠释，轻盈的色彩更显美丽。
关于道德与伦理、欲念与挣扎的部分即使意料之中也属好看，性向流动的表现也依然是阿莫多瓦式的奇情呈现，然而强行拔高历史带来的创伤阴影和情感升华，虽有曾外婆-外婆-妈妈-自己-女儿这一线索串联，主旨的关联度不大；美术永远那么绝，室内置景太好看了。
开了一个脑洞，如果和佩德罗差不多大但经历更坎坷的老谋子再拍一部严歌苓式的电影：一双在十年动乱中相爱相杀的女人又在“只生一个好”政策的时代鬼事神差地重逢，命运嘲弄又让两人各自从自己的母亲那里挖掘出五六十年代的苦难回忆……尤其是看到片尾“历史不会沉默”时
剧情之离奇给我整蒙了，不知道该如何评价。Janis发现跟孩子DNA不匹配之后的行为无论如何都圆不过去，我在那一段剧情前后一直处于一脸问号的状态。她跟Ana在一起感觉就是强行加的百合，其实睡不睡都不太影响剧情，而且Ana的演员跟潘潘不来电，可能就是演技问题，她那个角色不足以支撑所谓“平行”的另一端。Anyway，恭喜潘潘又下海了，希望下次能真下海，不要搞这种无效下海。
看到男孩子们的时候看哭了，很心疼。剧本很完整，小演员的演技也很好，该有的铺垫和伏笔也都有，不明白为什么分这么低。大众对有恐怖标签的电影要求一如既往地高吧，众口难调。如果说缺点就是反派人设不够丰满，动机没有交代清楚，还有不够恐怖吧。
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