催情功

探索现代浪漫的起起落落。

Ayşe, Ali, Mehmet and Zeynep are middle-class millennials struggling to make ends meet in Istanbul. Either still living with their parents or hardly getting by without help from their families, they are all beset by similar woes: money crunch, joblessness, social isolation. In view of the world’s horrors that Zeynep enumerates in her diary entries, these are minor problems, ‘slight disasters’, but they are all-consuming, at least to the extent of making them cry in the still of the night. 　　However, Umut Subasi’s first feature, Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster, is not a melodrama. With an appealingly light touch, it diagnoses the malaise of a generation that has run up against a dead end, one whose future prospects are indistinguishable from a game of chance. This is a world where astrology, the lottery and online personality tests compete with visa and job applications as life-shaping elements. 　　Fittingly, the film is structured around chance and coincidence, with its handful of characters encountering each other in every permutation, as though there were no world outside this small social bubble. With self-aware, frontal framing that pins characters to their surroundings and a counterintuitive musical score that turns pathos into humour, Subasi offers a social-media movie without social media, one whose characters are united in their double lives and frustrated desires. 　　源自：https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/almost-entirely-a-slight-disaster

故事发生在马尼拉一处精英高尔夫球场与乡村俱乐部的封闭生态中：在俱乐部打工的“发球童”伊莎贝尔对俱乐部主席帕兰卡医生产生难以名状的吸引，但当她逐步拼凑出俱乐部光洁表象下的暴力真相时，她意识到这段“迷恋”其实牵连着更阴暗的共同过往。

康纳·马什与他的狗桑迪过着隐居生活，直到有一天他开始玩一款新的、尖端的电脑游戏——OBEX。当桑迪失踪后，现实与游戏之间的界限开始模糊，康纳不得不踏入OBEX这个奇异的世界，去把她带回家。