隐秘的故事

唐载初年，位于郊外校场倒塌的通天浮屠残骸一夜之间复活。天空中一条火龙照亮夜空，并喷射火球摧毁了整个校场，死伤无数。随后通天浮屠也燃起大火，化为灰烬。而异族鬼道在城外叫嚣，只有武则天效仿大佛自焚，天下才可免受灾难。城中内外人心惶惶，狄仁杰奉命彻查此案，却遇到了与自己有过节的大理寺少卿裴东升。二人不打不相识，被迫一起调查此案。面对外敌的入侵，队友的不信任，狄仁杰决心背水一战，势要查明案件的真相。

　　在一个平静的夜晚，一辆飞驰而来的汽车，撞碎了音乐教授约翰（威廉·麦鲍瑟 William Mapother 饰）的幸福生活，他的妻女以及美好的人生都被尚未成年的少女罗娜（布里特·马灵 Brit Marling 饰）夺去。这起事故，也让罗娜的心灵蒙受巨大打击。罪恶感让她过着最底层的生活，却始终逃脱不掉灵魂的谴责。偶然机会，她重逢约翰，并以清洁人员的名义走进约翰潦倒无望的生活。在一段时间相处过后，他们渐渐温暖了彼此漫布创痕的心。与此同时，人类发现了一颗与地球极为相似的行星，而那里似乎也住着人类另一个自己。这是希望，还是美好的梦想？　　本片荣获2011年圣丹斯电影节评委会特别奖。

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

　　故事发生在上世纪90年代的一个美国小镇上。扎克和乔西从童年时就是最好的朋友，他们每天一起骑车上下学，放学后一起玩耍，甚至喜欢上同一个女孩。然而平静的生活在某天下午被彻底打破了。聚会因大麻而失控，朋友达里尔在教室里失血过多身亡，男孩们恐慌无措地要彼此发誓保密，扎克简单的生活仿佛被撕开了一道巨大的口子，整日被罪恶感压迫地喘不过气，乔西则索性不再上学，甚至不再走出家门一步。曾经密不可分的两个男孩在数日后便产生了不可逾越的鸿沟……