叛我更幸福

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

　　史蒂芬（瑞恩·菲利普）與莎倫（蕾切爾·李費佛）來到波多黎各，打算接走通過中介收養(yǎng)的海地小女孩妮娜。他們在旅館結(jié)識了穿著防風(fēng)衣，頭發(fā)亂糟糟的本杰明（庫薩克）。六萬元的費用付出手，妮娜卻突然失蹤，領(lǐng)養(yǎng)中介的工作人員不翼而飛，網(wǎng)站也無法打開……　　當(dāng)?shù)鼐旄嬖V他們，兩人是中了釣魚詐騙的圈套，以收養(yǎng)孩子為誘餌，拿到收養(yǎng)費后就把孩子帶走，再去尋找下一個受害人。然而夫婦倆的厄運還沒完，本杰明似乎是看準(zhǔn)了兩人是條大魚，把他們監(jiān)禁起來，要榨光他們所有的積蓄。

　　叉燒（鄭丹瑞 飾）是一個不務(wù)正業(yè)的小青年，整體裝神弄鬼騙錢。一天，叉燒的一個租客——在夜總會當(dāng)媽媽桑的大B（葉德嫻 飾）的家里來了一個客人，她美麗的外甥女云云（邱淑貞 飾）。大B用盡千方百計將美麗的云云哄到夜總會當(dāng)舞女，想著從她身上大賺一筆。一個晚上，黑社會老大炮哥到夜 總會消遣時遇到了云云，炮哥垂涎她的美色，找人把云云捉走了。怎知誰也料不到云云這個弱女子竟然擁有超能力——會噴火，關(guān)鍵時候她用自己的超能力脫身了。不久叉燒就得知了云云的這個本領(lǐng)，于是，一個壞主意計上心頭……

 影片改編自科林·胡佛2022年出版的暢銷小說，講述一段關(guān)于母性、寬恕，以及愛的力量是如何修復(fù)最嚴(yán)重錯誤的動人旅程。在和男友有一次看似完美的約會之后，肯娜（麥卡·夢露 飾）犯下一個無法彌補的錯誤，使她被送進監(jiān)獄。七年后，她回到懷俄明州的家鄉(xiāng)，希望能夠重新建立她的人生，并且爭取與她從未見過的女兒蒂恩母女團圓的機會。當(dāng)擁有蒂恩監(jiān)護權(quán)的祖父母堅決拒絕讓肯娜見她的女兒時，她卻意外地在一位前美式足球球員以及當(dāng)?shù)鼐瓢衫习宓睦捉埽ㄌ├锟恕ね?飾）身上找到意想不到的同情心以及更真實和深切的情感。隨著他們的秘密戀情逐漸發(fā)展，他們兩個人也面對越來越多的危險，這把肯娜逼向心碎的邊緣，然而，最終也讓她有希望得到第二次機會。