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　　17岁的女孩Gretchen（亨特·莎弗 Hunter Schafer 饰）被迫与家人一起搬到一个度假胜地，而那里并不像看上去的那样平静。

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

　　故事一开始，我们见到了12岁的扎凡（扎芙林·宰丽扎尔 Zafreen Zairizal 饰），一个叛逆而无忧无虑的女孩。然而，她的身体开始发生可怕的变化，而她却试图否认和掩饰这些变化，希望在学校里保持正常的生活。随着朋友们对扎凡的排挤和攻击，情节逐渐升级，达到了一个临界点，整个学校陷入恐慌。　　学校里关于厕所里藏着一个暗影的传说加剧了恐惧氛围，而一位自告奋勇的医疗官决定赶走困扰众人的恶魔。医疗官很快发现扎凡可能是问题的根源，打算为她进行驱魔。扎凡的内心状态宛如一只被拖出栖息地的受惊老虎，她最终决定向众人展示真实的本性，包括愤怒、狂暴和美丽。这可能是一个关于接受自己真实面貌的故事，同时也涉及到对于社会标准和期望的反抗。

　　Check out the trailer for The Beast Within, an upcoming movie starring Kit Harington, Ashleigh Cummings, James Cosmo, and Caoilinn Springall.　　After a series of strange events leads her to question her family’s isolated life on a fortified compound deep in the English wilds, 10-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of the ancient forest. But upon witnessing her father undergo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret they’ve tried so desperately to conceal.　　The Beast Within is produced by Merlin Merton, Martin Owen, Ryan Hamilton, Karl Hall, Sebastian Street, Alex Chang, Jack Christian, Evan Ross, Jordan Wagner, and Ying Ye. It is written by Greer Taylor Ellison and Alexander J. Farrell.　　The Beast Within, directed by Alexander J. Farrell, opens in theaters nationwide on July 26, 2024.