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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

　　故事发生在上世纪90年代的一个美国小镇上。扎克和乔西从童年时就是最好的朋友，他们每天一起骑车上下学，放学后一起玩耍，甚至喜欢上同一个女孩。然而平静的生活在某天下午被彻底打破了。聚会因大麻而失控，朋友达里尔在教室里失血过多身亡，男孩们恐慌无措地要彼此发誓保密，扎克简单的生活仿佛被撕开了一道巨大的口子，整日被罪恶感压迫地喘不过气，乔西则索性不再上学，甚至不再走出家门一步。曾经密不可分的两个男孩在数日后便产生了不可逾越的鸿沟……

　　故事发生在英格兰北部的纽卡斯尔，因为遭遇了次贷危机，瑞奇（克里斯·希钦 Kris Hitchen 饰）不仅丢掉了工作，还背负上了巨额的债务。为了维持生计，瑞奇贷款买了一辆小货车，准备靠送货来开启事业的第二春，哪知道他这一没有经过思考的举动给整个家庭都带来了无法挽回的伤害 。　　瑞奇的妻子艾比（黛比·哈尼伍德 Debbie Honeywood 饰）是一名家政工，专门为残疾人和老人服务，如今，她不得不依靠公交车往返于不同的雇主家中，这令她感到非常的疲惫。为了偿还货车的贷款，瑞奇不得不将更多的时间花费在工作上，这令他们的大儿子塞布（瑞斯·斯通 Rhys Stone 饰）感到备受冷落。