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　　19岁的少年赛斯·戴维斯（吉奥瓦尼·瑞比西 Giovanni Ribisi饰）一心希望能尽快淘到自己的第一桶金，好让父亲另眼相看。他本打算靠玩非法纸牌起家，却发现此路根本行不通，直到一家名为J.T.马林经纪公司的股票经纪商找上了赛维斯。　　在这个号称“锅炉房”的核心办公室里，多少个一夜间成为百万富翁的故事深深诱惑着赛维斯。很快，野心勃勃的赛维斯便以优异的成绩通过了股票经济人认证考试，开始了他的“成功之路”。他把那些永远都没有前途的股票卖给利欲熏心的投资者。赛维斯正以极危险的速度追逐着金钱与利益，靠近着他所谓的功成名就，贪婪而不安。在纽约长岛这个瞬息万变的商业圈里，良心未泯的赛维斯终于开始面对良心的考验。

 她（李来 饰）是一个美丽平凡的小女孩，和爸爸妈妈生活在位于街角的家中。家里经营着以她的名字素媛命名的杂货店，母亲（严智媛 饰）作为老板娘日夜忙碌不得闲暇，父亲则在工厂干着繁重的工作。在那个飘雨的早上，素媛打着雨伞独自上学。在离学校近在咫尺的地方，她遭遇一个相貌猥琐、酒气冲天的大叔，由此开启了她的悲剧之旅。柔嫩的小花遭到暴风雨无情摧残，受伤的岂止枝枝叶叶，更是那迎着阳光无忧成长的心。无良媒体铺天盖地大肆渲染，作为受害者的素媛一家仿佛成了周身污秽的耻辱之人，被四周诧异好奇的目光所包围。妈妈悲痛欲绝，几近崩溃。爸爸全力保护女儿，但受伤的小天使却拒绝爸爸的靠近。问凶之路伴随着天使的治愈旅程，美丽的女孩可会再露灿烂笑容？

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