“Avete scommesso sulla rovina di questo paese. E avete vinto.”
In theaters January 2015.
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FROM PAOLO VIRZÌ
“In Human Capital, I was trying to find a way to express a spirit, an atmosphere, a moment, this very moment of the financial crisis and how it influenced the lives of people in terms of dreams, aspirations and expectations.
When I first read the book, I was hit by that world, that loneliness, that sense of meaningless of life, that sense of losing the value of human life, and it was so familiar to my world, to our country. It means probably that the world is getting smaller, and that the globalization of the economy now gets the entire world into the same suburb of privilege.”
“The book inspired me to invent a sort of North European/North American thriller set in northern Italy, which was also a way to combine different styles cinematically speaking.
We tried, in fact, to combine four styles. One was a more Italian style, like a bitter, sharp comedy with social commentary. The second was more existential, Antonioni, French style drama, with something pathetic and ironic. The third was more young-people struggling to pursuit their own desires, instead of following their parents lifestyle projects. And finally the end chapter was a cold, dark thriller, with a touch of dark humor, to recollect the meaning of the entire story and to conceive a big mythos for our times, a metaphor of our stressful wellness without happiness. Like “La Dolce Vita” in the sixties tried to do with the surface of the perpetual party of Via Veneto, which was hiding a secret sense of death and desperation.”
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