Unleashed

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

　　焦娇（汤唯 饰）15岁就来到了澳门，过着颠沛流离的生活，之后成为了赌场公关。罗大牛（吴秀波 饰）早年来到美国，一番摸爬滚打，如今已经是小有名气的加州房地产经纪人，事业一帆风顺的他在情场上自然步步为赢，是公认的钻石王老五。　　一本名为《查令十字街84号》的书让这一对生活毫无交集的男女走到了一起，两人通过电子邮件进行交往，透过种种误会和波折，最终发现彼此是自己的灵魂伴侣。在此期间，焦娇徘徊在郑义（陆毅 饰）、邓先生（王志文 饰）和诗人（祖峰 饰）之间不知何去何从，而罗大牛则在同华裔老夫妻林平生（秦沛 饰）和唐秀懿（吴彦姝 饰）的交往当中逐渐发现了人生的道义。

　　故事讲述鲍伯刚和恋情长跑的女友分手，心碎不已时巧遇一只可爱到不行的流浪猫，而鲍伯好友克拉伦斯更被小猫萌翻，两人给小猫取名‘Keanu’，而‘百炼钢化为绕指柔’大男人从此化身猫奴，每天陪猫、爱猫，与猫为伍。某天鲍伯的家被流氓集团闯空门，更惨的是他们的爱猫‘Keanu’竟然被绑架！为了营救爱猫，两人决定混入贩卖毒品的圈子，为方便接近流氓集团......

　　CW•布里格斯（伍迪•艾伦饰）是20世纪40年代美国纽约著名的北海岸保险公司的最出色的保险调查员，他的拿手绝活是能窥探犯人心中所想，从而轻而易举地破案。自从老板请来了“效率专家”贝蒂，这一切就改变了。贝蒂新官上任，带来新的策划新的管理方式，布里格斯成为被开刀的第一人。二人之间火药味甚浓。在同事乔治的生日会上，他俩被魔术师叫上台，在玉蝎子的魔力下，二人被催眠，醒来后对刚才发生的事一无所知。　　之后城内接二连三发生珠宝盗窃事件，而被窃珠宝的报警装置是布里格斯亲手设置的，没有他是不可能破开的。在调查案件中，肯辛顿家的尤物女儿（查理•塞隆饰）主动约他约会，他怀疑她的动机。而贝蒂请来侦探协助他调查让他更为不快。　　贝蒂是上司的情人，因为老板迟迟不肯跟妻子离婚而倍感伤心。神使鬼差走到了布里格斯家跟他倾诉，布里格斯怀疑是贝蒂泄漏了公司机密，随后贝蒂对他的示爱更令他加深怀疑。　　要在一系列欢笑嬉闹中，最后才想起一切缘自当初的那个玉蝎子的魔法，这些盗窃案最后还撮合了一对天作之合。