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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

　　影片講述了一場震驚全國的特大運鈔車搶劫案發生后，嫌疑人小寶在無現場犯罪證明情況下金蟬脫殼，然而犯罪的種子已然在心中生根發芽，伴隨著時間野蠻生長，終將在警方的明察秋毫中爆裂迸發……

　　高中生瑞科（卡斯帕?凡?迪恩 Casper Van Dien 飾）畢業后，在女友卡門（丹妮絲?理查茲 Denise Richards 飾）的鼓動下，違背了父親的意志，加入了機械化步兵學院，卡門亦加入了海軍學院。　　在他們參加訓練不久后，地球遭到了來自外星球的昆蟲襲擊。瑞科的親人均慘遭殺害，卡門將拍攝到的影像傳送給了瑞科。悲憤交加的瑞科率領部下投入到了對抗外星昆蟲的戰斗中。　　然而，軍隊低估了這些昆蟲的實力。在一次遭遇戰中，10萬軍隊慘遭殺戮，只剩瑞科、卡門等幾人僥幸逃生。瑞科親眼目睹了恐怖的殺戮場面，意外獲知了這些昆蟲變得如此聰明、強大的秘密。瑞科意識到必須制造更先進的武器才能對付這些昆蟲，人類的反擊開始了！

　　(甘)網影審字(2022)第001號，甘肅未來影業有限公司