花之夏 / 石森瑞穗 [HIGR-048]

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

　　改编自同名网络连载漫画，由原作漫画作者郑严植亲执导筒拍摄。该片讲述了被连环杀人犯夺去家人的女子以自己的脏器作为担保展开报复行动的故事。

　　瑞秋（泰莉莎·帕尔墨 Teresa Palmer 饰）和安东尼（史蒂芬·克里 Steven Cree 饰）本来拥有一个幸福的家庭，两人共同抚养着上天恩赐给他们的一对可爱的双胞胎，一家人生活在平和与其乐融融的气氛之中。哪知道，一场突如其来的灾难在迅雷不及掩耳之际袭击了这个家庭，双胞胎中的哥哥不幸丧生，剩下的人则要体味无穷无尽的痛苦。　　为了摆脱阴暗的过去，尽快走进新的生活，瑞秋和安东尼决定举家迁往宁江的乡村小镇，在那里修复这个支离破碎的家庭，谁知道没过多久，种种异象便发生在了幸存的弟弟艾略特（Tristan Ruggeri 饰）身上，艾略特告诉父母，死去的哥哥并没有离开，而是一直纠缠和困扰着他。

　　我叫夏津生，做水产生意，45岁那年我儿子跳楼自杀了，他死后第37天我进了他所有的群，我发现里面全都是有抑郁倾向企图轻生的孩子，我不知道为什么，我在“约死群”留言1万9千次，问过127个男孩，49个女孩，到现在也没有答案……