VN.008 顾欣怡

　　每个学校都有很多故事，从新生入学到毕业，一届又过了一届，然而那些建筑和房屋仍然留在原地，有些人带着难忘的回忆离开，而那些回忆可能永远也不能忘记……

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

本片改编自同名短篇科幻小说，讲述了某一天开始在世界道路上行驶的无数球的故事，以交通事故为界变得无缘无故被人讨厌的男人的悲剧，因为圆盘故障开始与住在附近的宇宙人的交流等。

　　一次偶然中，阿秋（吴耀汉 饰）和贝多芬（岑建勋 饰）结识了犯罪调查专家阿文（许冠文 饰），志同道合的三人成为了很好的朋友。然而阿秋和贝多芬的真实身份系大盗，两人和阿文正邪不两立，而阿文对此并不知情，三人的关系在摇摇欲坠之中维系着艰难的平衡。　　某日，阿文在商场里撞见了自己的妻子杜白莉（胡茵梦 饰）正在和珠宝富商阿杨（翁世杰 饰）约会，遭到了背叛的阿文感到十分愤怒，决定对阿杨进行报复。阿文驾驶着自己的机车要和阿杨的豪车一决高下，哪知道遭遇了车祸，不仅自己受伤，坐骑也报废无法再骑，窘迫的时刻，阿秋和贝多芬及时出现，替阿文解了围。