我的妻子的姐姐

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

　　五年前，一系列模仿名画场景的连环杀人案轰动纽约城，警探斯坦（Willem Dafoe 饰）受命调查此案，然而却迟迟没有进展，令其饱受舆论压力。斯坦以少女克莉斯特（Samantha MacIvor 饰）作诱饵吸引凶手，虽然成功击毙嫌疑犯艾迪，却也导致克莉斯特惨遭杀害。　　艾迪一案使斯坦得到警署嘉奖，顺利升职，不过他的心中始终对遇害少女怀有愧疚，并且此案背后似乎另有隐情。心中承受巨大内疚之情的斯坦沉溺酒精，愈加孤僻。五年后，类似案件再次出现，凶手似乎有意以斯坦为目标发出赤裸裸的挑战。斯坦不仅要面对这个狡猾且智商极高的对手，更要面对长久以来困扰自己的心魔……

　　故事发生在一个电脑科技极为发达的年代，一名科学家发明了一个杀人程序协助警方办案，其中集结了数百名连环杀手的资料和他们的作案手法。这个程序是如此的邪恶，最后不仅生成了个人意志，更拥有了人类的外表和可以随时修复任意损伤的特殊能力，它从禁锢中逃脱了出来，在世间作恶。　　为了捕捉这位邪恶的“凶手”，警方设计了一个追踪仪器，罪犯帕克（丹泽尔·华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰）被选中成为了仪器的试验品。帕克曾经亦是一名警察，却因为动用私刑杀死了让他家破人亡的杀手而被免除了职务打入大牢。而让帕克感到在意的是，在杀人程序中，亦有当年杀害他家人的那名杀手的存在。

 故事发生在一个南部小镇的棉织厂，诺玛（莎莉·菲尔德 Sally Field 饰）和她的家人都在这里工作。这个工厂的工作环境异常恶劣，工人们每天都经受着资本家的无情剥削和艰辛劳动。面对这种不公平的待遇，工人们备受压迫和困扰。为了改变这种状况，总工会派来了一名经验丰富的组织者，希望能够协助当地工人组织自己的工会，为工人们争取更好的待遇和权益。然而，工人们对组织者的到来持有怀疑态度，他们心存疑虑，担心这只是一个无望的尝试。组织者面临着许多困难和挑战。工人们对他进行冷嘲热讽，老板则用各种无理阻拦来阻碍工会的成立。看到这一切，诺玛内心充满了愤慨和不满。她是一个有着坚强意志的女性，对不合理的事物总是敢于挑战。受到组织者的激励和影响，诺玛最终选择站出来，成为了改变的先锋。