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 羅生門，日本京都的正南門。云游和尚、砍柴人和乞丐在城門底下避雨，三人閑聊，話題開始，故事的序幕拉開：一個武士和他妻子路過荒山，遭遇了不測。妻子被侮辱，而武士慘遭殺害。慘案如何釀成？兇手、妻子、借武士亡魂來做證的女巫，都各有說法。真相只得一個，但是各人提供證詞的目的卻各有不同。為了美化自己的道德，減輕自己的罪惡，掩飾自己的過失，人人都開始敘述一個美化自己的故事版本。荒山上的慘案，成了一團撥不開看不清的迷霧。談論完畢，雨過天晴。砍柴人在羅生門旁發現一個哭泣的棄嬰。他決定收養下來，抱著嬰孩往夕陽深處走去。

 故事發生在遙遠的2078年，礦業組織NEB在天狼星6B行星上發現了名為“Berynium”的元素，該元素蘊含著巨大的能量，可以用來充當能源使用。組織派遣了一批礦工前往行星進行能源開采，然而工人們很快就發現，Berynium擁有強烈的放射性，根本不適合使用。雖然礦工們強烈要求停止任務，但組織卻不為所動，無奈之下，礦工們自發的組成了“聯盟”，和組織之間開始漫長的對抗。為了抵擋組織的猛烈攻擊，聯盟研制出了小型機器人“Screamer”，它擁有敏捷的身手和強大的攻擊力，給敵方造成了巨大的傷害。然而，聯盟并不知道的是，在不知不覺間，機器人們已經進化出了自我意識，想要成為這顆星球上的主宰者。

 本片本講述的是：喬治·柯漢是本世紀前期著名的百老匯表演藝人，身兼演員、作家、作曲家與舞蹈家于一身，他的生平故事可以說反映了四十年代以前美國娛樂事業的生態。本片是導演邁克爾·柯蒂茲與編劇愛潑斯坦尼兄弟合作的另一佳片，描述柯漢從一個地位卑微的兒童演員力爭上游變成百老匯巨星的一生。以出色的制作和歌舞場面重現當年的娛樂圈面貌，并側面反映了當時的美國社會脈動。在三十年代以主演黑社會片享有盛譽的詹姆斯·卡格尼改變戲路，在銀幕上又唱又跳，生動而細膩地注釋了主人翁的形象和個性，因而勇奪奧斯卡最佳男主角金像獎，片中出色的歌舞表演亦令人看得眉飛色舞

Ay?e, 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