杰克（兰迪·韦恩 Randy Wayne 饰）和罗杰（小罗伯特·拜利 Robert Bailey Jr. 饰）相识于同年时代，两人是感情十分要好的好友，如今，就读于同一所高中，他们的处境却截然相反。杰克开朗帅气，拥有众多朋友，罗杰却沉默寡言，处处受人排挤。无法忍受校园欺凌的罗杰最终选择了结束自己的生命，伴随着他的死，杰克心中某些重要的东西碎裂了。
在内疚和自责之中，杰克一直诘问着自己，为何在事态尚可挽回之时没能拉罗杰一把，这种自责逐渐变成了一种责任感，他决定帮助和罗杰有着相同遭遇的人们。可是，这种帮助说来简单做来困难，在无数次挫折和失败之后，杰克还能贯彻自己的梦想，不忘初心吗？
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
Follow the heartwarming journey of 2 orphan girls whose only wish is to find a home for Christmas. With a little help from their guardian angels (Dick Van Dyke and Angela Lansbury), they discover miracles can happen when you believe.
