姨母的诱惑

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

 米尔德雷德（弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德 Frances McDormand 饰）的女儿在外出时惨遭奸杀，米尔德雷德和丈夫查理（约翰·哈克斯 John Hawkes 饰）之间的婚姻因此走到了尽头，如今，她同儿子罗比（卢卡斯·赫奇斯 Lucas Hedges饰）过着相依为命的生活。一晃眼几个月过去了，案件仍然没有告破预兆，而警方似乎早已经将注意力从案子上转移了开来。被绝望和痛苦缠绕的米尔德雷德租下了高速公路边上的三块巨型广告牌，在上面控诉警方办案无能，并将矛头直接对准了警察局局长威洛比（伍迪·哈里森 Woody Harrelson 饰）。实际上，威洛比一直隐瞒着自己身患绝症命不久矣的事实。因为这三块广告牌，米尔德雷德和威洛比的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。

珍妮曾被誉为“钢琴天才”，但她因冤案而被判入狱15年。当她遇到有歌唱天赋的叙利亚战争难民奥马尔时，她同意在电视音乐选秀节目中为他弹钢琴伴奏。在她的牢狱生活期间，她的初恋弗莱舍成为了一名流行歌星，并担任了音乐选秀比赛的评委，而珍妮和奥马尔则是其中很有望胜出的选手之一。在狱中度过这些痛苦的岁月后，现在是珍妮做出选择的时刻：是报复，还是幸福和未来？

　　当一声lesson one响起，不知你的思绪是否也回到了有朗朗读书声的那间教室，回到有雷蕾、何玫玫、Jimmy、Lily、Lucy和鹦鹉Poly陪伴的青春记忆。然而，雷蕾和何玫玫最终却没有走到一起……多年后，这些同学们因鹦鹉Polly的葬礼齐聚学校操场，何玫玫带着丈夫韩刚和两个女儿到场，一个叫可可，一个叫惜惜，这对雷蕾犹如晴天霹雳！失意之极的李雷在无意中按动了装有英语听力磁带的录音机，他发现通过磁带的快进倒带键可以一次又一次的穿越。于是，他开始了一次又一次的追回何玫玫计划……