动物性本能

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

　　The bizarre and mysterious suicide of the Wendolyn’s patriarch brings the dysfunctional, pharma family back together. While the family members squabble over their dwindling inheritance, an ancient curse preys on their greed and arrogance. The Wendolyn’s made billions on painkillers, but no drug can kill the pain that they’ll soon endure.

　　影片构建了一个妙趣横生的死后世界观：人离世后将抵达一个连接无数“永恒世界”的中转站，一旦选择就无法改变。故事始于赖瑞（迈尔斯·特勒 饰）被蝴蝶饼噎死的荒诞开场，他在中转站重获青春，等待妻子琼安（伊丽莎白·奥尔森 饰）的到来。然而琼安到来后，却面临新的难题——她在战争中阵亡的前夫卢克（卡勒姆·特纳 饰），竟已在此苦候她67年。　　两个男人为了获得琼安的最终选择， 展开了一系列令人捧腹的“竞争”，各种啼笑皆非的较量让本该严肃的永恒抉择变成了一场妙趣横生的“爱情竞赛”。面对车站里呈现的琳琅满目的人生可能，一边是共同走过漫长岁月、充满柴米油盐记忆的现任丈夫；一边是曾令她刻骨铭心、苦候她67年的前度挚爱， 琼安必须做出最终的选择：与谁携手， 共赴永恒？