圣洁四人行

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

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　　四名青少年在一次公路旅行中决定绕道而行，发现自己在肯塔基南部森林深处的鬼屋“万圣节尖叫公园”。在目睹了各种各样的折磨和gore之后，他们开始怀疑自己经历的事情是否有点太现实了。在他们知道之前，他们中的每一个人都被俘虏了，并成为他们原本认为可怕的乐趣和游戏的一部分…

影片通过追逐与命案，讲述了一段真实感人的爱情故事。核心不是命案，不是拐卖儿童案，是温暖与希望。无论生活有多悲催，只要相信爱拥有爱，就会无所畏惧，充满希望。善恶对错不应是非黑即白，人就如同两栖动物，始终游离在善恶之间的一念之差，贵在如何选择。