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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

　　故事发生在一间专门面向歌剧退休演员开放的养老院里，维尔福（比利·康诺利 Billy Connolly 饰）、雷吉（汤姆·康特奈 Tom Courtenay 饰）和茜茜（宝林·科林斯 Pauline Collins 饰）是那里的明星居民。每一年，这三个出色的演唱者都会通过他们的三重唱向社会募集资金，用以维持养老院的运作。虽然养老院的规模不大，但每一个老人都能在那里找到快乐和安宁。　　简（玛吉·史密斯 Maggie Smith 饰）的出现打破了众人宁静的生活，这个高傲又好斗的女人是歌剧界名声大噪的歌唱家，同时，她还是雷吉的前妻。受生活所迫，简不得已住进了这间养老院，前夫雷吉的存在更是让她心中愤愤不平。由于简的加入，三重唱变成了四重唱，但排练的效果并没有因为一个得力唱匠的加入而有所提高，麻烦和争执接踵而至。

　　狄武周天授元年，岭南潞州城司马孔成业迷恋修道炼丹，传闻找到了长生不老丹的药方，只缺一味名叫彼岸花的奇草。传言这是来自地狱的死亡之花，常年生长在坟冢幽谷之中，能致人产生幻觉，中幻觉者如妖邪附体般，发狂发癫，死状凄惨。　　孔成业发出悬赏，采到彼岸花者，赏百金。山民猎户等纷纷进山寻找，连孔成业也带人到处扒坟冢、探幽谷。忙活的孔成业突然惨死，死前发狂。连他的几名参军也死相极惨，都说孔成业采到了彼岸花，被妖邪附身杀死，闹得满城风雨。潞州刺史陆英杰上报朝廷，恰逢狄仁杰巡查岭南诸州，女皇武则天命其前往潞州，全权调查此案.。