純粹的激情

Ay?e, 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

　　鮑威爾（安東尼?霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 飾）是一位專門研究黑猩猩的人類學家，他在盧旺達長期觀察觀察當?shù)睾谛尚傻幕顒?。然而兩年前，這位性情溫和的學者突然性情大變，殺了兩位當?shù)氐纳止芾韱T以及傷害了多名管理員后神秘失蹤。如今，他終于被逮捕歸案，關(guān)押在美國高度戒嚴的精神病監(jiān)獄。　　年輕的精神病專家卡爾特（小庫珀?古丁 Cuba Gooding 飾）意圖揭開鮑威爾精神失常之謎而一舉成名，于是他深入到監(jiān)獄直接與鮑威爾進行對話。鮑威爾一開始對這位訪客充滿敵意，身為人類學家的他在卡爾特面前一點也不落下風。隨著對話的逐漸深入，卡爾特漸漸了解到了事件真相：鮑威爾殺害的管理員其實是偷獵大猩猩的惡棍……