香港奇案之烹夫

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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

　　“不准奔跑、不准跳水，天黑以后没有救生员值勤，不准游泳。”　　影片根据2014年拍摄的同名短片改编，内心深处希望能够战胜病魔，再度回归美国职棒大联盟打球的雷（怀亚特·拉塞尔 Wyatt Russell 饰）和他的太太伊芙（凯瑞·康顿 Kerry Condon 饰）搬进新家，后院的游泳池不仅让孩子们玩得开心，也能够让他进行物理治疗，然而这栋房子阴暗神秘的过去即将释放一股邪恶力量，把这一家人拉进无法逃脱的恐怖深渊。

　　毕业于某高中的考特尼（Laura Ashley Samuels 饰）、瑞安（皮尔森·福德 Pierson Fode 饰）、南森（乔·阿德勒 Joe Adler 饰）等人聚在一起聊天，他们俊朗美丽，当初都是学校里备受人关注的明星人物。只不过站在顶端的风云儿常常促狭无度，他们随意捉弄其他同学，并以此为乐，当然彼此心中默默守护着一个不可轻易为外人道的秘密。某天，他们的同学吉米被一个带着玛丽莲·梦露面具的人抓住，随后以极其残酷的手段虐待致死。这件事令众人大为震惊，而他们随后也不约而同遭遇各种奇怪事件。　　一切似乎指向数年前发生在珊地海滩的一次“意外”，他们的一位同学溺水身亡，而刻意被隐藏的“意外”则成为他们今天深陷死亡漩涡的肇因。