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　　本片將聚焦如今頗受關(guān)注的“元宇宙世界”。VR研究小組成員一個個因為不明的原因死亡，孤島上“紅色女”的咒怨被解禁，慘劇拉開序幕。

富豪私人派對上，一對男女忘我炒熱氣氛，只要金主敢玩，他們十倍奉還。白天，兩人棲居小公寓照料幼子，她靠教舞維生，他則是潦倒音樂家。然而，手機里傳來的加沙煉獄景象使他們焦慮，周遭人們卻歡慶著血流成河，他們?yōu)榱藴仫枺^續(xù)出賣靈魂。某夜，他收到酬勞可觀的邀約，卻必須將金主寫下的魔鬼詩篇譜成新國歌。為了五斗米，他決定深入國族的集體創(chuàng)傷，尋找主旋律。

　　Joseph Fulton, a well-regarded fifty-eight-year-old director of romantic comedies, wants to become assistant groundskeeper at a local cemetery. He wants to work outdoors and be close to nature. Meanwhile, he thinks it’s important to have his last will and testament drawn up. But his highly dramatic actress girlfriend thinks he must be dying and that he is just too brave to tell anyone. The rumor spreads and soon everyone he knows—and some he doesn’t—are crowded into his small apartment to say their last farewells.

Ay?e, 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