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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

　　熱愛射飛鏢的柯林看店為業，為了贏回紅杏出牆的妻子芳心，他跳脫常軌，離開熟悉的故鄉，橫越全國。當他經過美麗的高山地區，來到碎石嶙嶙的黑池時，連著遇到一些人和事，改變了他的新生活。是一部好笑又非常人性的影片。

故事围绕墨西哥特种部队精英卡洛斯（绰号“公牛”）展开，他在一次任务中成功抓获了犯罪集团头目，却因此遭到报复，妻子在他面前被残忍杀害，自己也沦为通缉犯。走投无路之际，他意外中了彩票头奖，一夜之间拥有了复仇的资本。他与挚友、战友米格尔联手，将全部财富转化为武器和情报，从被通缉的逃犯，变成了以暴制暴的“复仇猎人”，目标是让所有参与杀害他妻子的人，付出最惨痛的代价。

　　媒体从业人员帕特里克·卡特（肯塔克尔·德利 Kentucker Audley 饰）意外联系到了失踪许久的姐姐卡罗琳（艾米·西米茨 Amy Seimetz 饰）。卡罗琳当初曾在戒毒所治疗，如今住进了一个名为“圣伊甸园”的地方，并自称过上了乌托邦般的生活。为了弄清姐姐的下落，帕特里克和同事兼好友山姆·特纳（AJ·鲍恩 AJ Bowen 饰）、杰克·威廉姆斯（乔·斯万博格 Joe Swanberg 饰）启程前往圣伊甸园的所在地调查。这座乐园位于一个鲜为人知的隐秘所在，许许多多生活中经历痛苦和坎坷的人们，在“父亲”（吉恩·琼斯 Gene Jones 饰）的感召和抚慰下重获新生。　　出于媒体人的敏感，山姆取得了和“父亲”对谈的机会，但他却从对方幽默机智的谈吐中嗅到了一丝杀气……