VN.008 顾欣怡

　　民国年间，上海滩闸北区保德路发生一桩命案，死者后来经过确认，竟然是马源商会老板马广则。　　多年来，马源商会在闸北一直都颇具影响力，马广则更是最被看好的商界风云人物，他的死打破了闸北区原本的宁静。

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

 商末时期，陈塘关总兵李靖的夫人怀胎3年6个月，最终生下一个肉球，肉球中跳出一个伶俐可爱的男孩。李靖原当他是妖孽欲杀之而后快，幸太乙真人前来收之为徒，赐名哪吒，并赐以乾坤圈和混天绫两件宝贝。某年，天下大旱，甘露未降。哪吒和家将到东海洗澡玩耍。他用混天绫搅动海水，撼动龙宫，惹出巡海夜叉李艮和龙王三太子敖丙。几番言语不和，哪吒杀此二人，由此闯下通天大祸。四海龙王齐聚陈塘关索命，为救一方百姓，哪吒决定交出生命……本片根据《封神演义》故事改编，并荣获1980年电影百花奖最佳美术片奖；文化部1979年优秀影片奖、青年优秀创作奖；1983年菲律宾马尼拉国际电影节特别奖；1988年法国布尔波拉斯文化俱乐部青年国际动画电影节评委奖和宽银幕长动画片奖。

 象人（约翰•赫特 John Hurt 饰）是一个天生的畸形症患者，他的脸长得就像大象的脸，因此而得名。象人一直被利欲昏心的马戏团老板利用，带到世界各地去巡回演出，受尽了非人的虐待。象人所经受的遭遇社会名流们都会感到不可思议，然而乐观坚强的象人却承担了下来。直到有一次，象人遇上了年轻的英国医生（安东尼•霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰），出于怜悯和医生的操守，他与马戏团老板签订了“领养”协议后，将象人带回了医院作研究。在医院里，象人重新感受到了人间的温暖，而医生也在和象人的交往中结下了深深的友谊，他已经舍不得这位“上帝的弃儿”。但利欲昏心的马戏团老板带人又将象人抢了回去，象人的新生活是否就此终结？