最后的食人族世界

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

　　一个叫做哈立德的年轻叙利亚难民几乎失去了所有的家人。近乎偶然之下，他藏在一艘运煤船里流落到赫尔辛基成了一个偷渡客，并在当地寻求政治庇护。维克斯特伦是一个旅行推销员，他在牌桌上赢了一大笔钱之后在赫尔辛基的一条后街买了一家不赚钱的餐馆。在当地政府作出要将哈立德遣返回阿勒颇的判决后，他决定非法留在这个国家。最终，维克斯特伦发现哈立德睡在他餐馆的内院里，并聘请他到自己餐馆里做清洁工和洗碗工。生活会短暂地向我们展示它光明的一面，然而命运很快就会插手其中。

一场车祸夺走了莱利的生命，她近乎完美的生活突然中断，留下一个没有母亲的家庭。随着调查的开始，莱利的妹妹凯莉发现这场车祸可能不是她妹妹死亡的真正原因，案件发生了奇怪的转折。

　　曾经驰骋战场的退伍老兵安布罗斯·麦金利（Nick Damici 饰）终究也抵挡不了衰老和死亡的侵袭，妻子早年去世，儿子威尔（伊桑·恩布里 Ethan Embry 饰）兀自忙着事业，父子关系虽不冷淡却也绝非亲近，双目失明的安布罗斯搭乘着儿子的汽车搬入名为克莱森特湾的老年社区，陪伴他的只有一条忠诚的狗狗。搬入当晚，住在隔壁的老妇人被一只饿狼模样的怪兽袭击身亡，而安布罗斯则经历了极其恐怖且终生难忘的夜晚。从医生口中得知，该社区每个月都会发生一次类似案件，但警方无一例外都将其归咎为普通的野兽所为。　　得不到亲人的救助，更无法奢望父母的庇护，安布罗斯只能融入社区，寻找拯救自己的办法……