没有被爱过的女人

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

　　堪萨斯的农民威廉（克林特·伊斯特伍德 Clint Eastwood ）年轻时曾是出名的杀手和劫匪，然而当遇上了克劳迪亚后，他的生活开始彻底改变。威廉和克劳迪亚结婚生子后，洗手不干，一家人过着幸福的生活。好景不长，克劳迪亚不久故去，威廉独立带着两个孩子过着清贫宁静的生活。　　这时，该地区发生了一起牛仔醉酒殴打妓女并将其毁容的恶性事件，坏蛋警长达格特（吉恩·哈克曼 Gene Hackman 饰）只将此事草草了结，凶手仍逍遥法外。当地妓女纷纷捐钱，要求悬红1000美金请杀手来伸张正义。“思科菲尔德小子”找到威廉，要求合伙干这票买卖。为了给孩子们一个幸福富足的家庭，威廉终于答应再次出山。

我们这样，是爱吗？阿妹天生患有脑性麻痹，性格却异常跳脱乐观，闲时会约朋友踩板吹水，画画作乐，二十多年来一直努力不被身体耽误。可是过度保护的母亲坚决安排她进行子宫切除手术，阿妹努力建立的生活再次失去平衡，她的身体永远是不由自主的。在朋友推荐下，阿妹找到了一个专为残疾人士提供性服务的自发组织，并认识了义工Ken。这无私的相遇仿佛抚慰了两个受伤的灵魂，那日渐累积的情愫冲淡了道德与身体的羁绊，这样的关系，是爱吗？ 　　谭惠贞继《以青春的名义》（第14届开幕电影）后第二部长片作品，将爱情元素和身障者性权益议题融合，成就一个道德探索与自我寻找的故事。