Film Movement | Release Date:January 14, 2015 | Not Rated
Summary:Human Capital begins at the end, as a cyclist is run off the road by a careening SUV the night before Christmas Eve. As details emerge of the events leading up to the accident, the lives of the well-to-do Bernaschi family, privileged and detached, will intertwine with the Ossolas, struggling to keep their comfortable middle-class life, inHuman Capital begins at the end, as a cyclist is run off the road by a careening SUV the night before Christmas Eve. As details emerge of the events leading up to the accident, the lives of the well-to-do Bernaschi family, privileged and detached, will intertwine with the Ossolas, struggling to keep their comfortable middle-class life, in ways neither could have expected. Dino Ossola (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), in dire financial straits, anticipates the birth of twins with his second wife (Valeria Golino). Meanwhile, Dino's teenage daughter's relationship with hedge-fund manager Giovanni Bernaschi's playboy son complicates an already tricky social dance of status, money and ambition. [Film Movement]…Expand
I watched this movie at home on Netflix. I believe it is in Italian with English subtitles. There were a lot of story twists and turns. The story was retold from the perspective of each of the main characters. Loved it. The characters were all believable in their roles.
Lately I have been watching lots of movies from the book adaptation and here it comes another one. This time an English language novel transformed into an Italian movie. But what I heard is that a few changes were made to bring the Italian flavor. Well,Finding the truth behind a mistake.
Lately I have been watching lots of movies from the book adaptation and here it comes another one. This time an English language novel transformed into an Italian movie. But what I heard is that a few changes were made to bring the Italian flavor. Well, what could I say more, if you know the director you will say he's the right person to make it happen and he did excellently. Recruited the best cast and extracted best out of them.
The story of the two families narrated in the different streams when a cyclist got hit by a car on the Christmas eve. So the question has been asked, how did it happen? And who did it? The characters from two families begin to expose their role on that accident night revealing who did what. Dino, a realtor sees an opportunity to get into a big earning league so he decides to invest a large amount on it. Followed by the recession he has to face the reality of business that puts his life on a stake. Carla, the wife of a multimillionaire gives a financial support for the struggling company. Later she has to let it go when her husband's business begins to fall apart. Serena, the daughter of Dino and Massimiliano, son of Carla are the close friends. Their story follows where one of them finds their true love and another one get into sadness for some reason. When all these three episodes concludes the final chapter begins to unveil the truth with a twist.
''I know it does not look much like you, I tend to make things uglier.''
The story was told in layers which were divided into the four chapters. The story that happened between the particular timeline was repeated again and again with another character's perspective and with different camera angles till truth reveals in the final chapter. As it's still developing the opening was confusing which was the first chapter. Without holding-up in development, it straight goes with the main intention of the theme. If you pass that then the following segments interest you to make you guess the possibilities the suspense it hold. Kind of impossible to predict because of the introduction of the related characters to the particular incident consumed by the three quarters of the film. Which mean twist comes at the latter part which was really a good one. Each character that comes in the different episodes were incredible. Like, for a moment it was unhooked from the rest and centralizes that specific story stream, but the common event holds the story all together. I liked all the main characters, but the character Serena steals the final show. The role who played it was a new face and I kind see a great career ahead of her. (God, she's kind of attractive, hope its not me the only one to say that.) This was one of the recent best neo-noir. If somebody asks, I definitely recommend it.…Expand
Human Capital takes the worst clichés about Northern Italy (greed mainly) and transforms them into a portrait - a heavily politicised one, albeit - of suburban dissatisfaction, with some sort of mild thriller-like plot to contour it. The verisimilar acting of the cast and nature of theHuman Capital takes the worst clichés about Northern Italy (greed mainly) and transforms them into a portrait - a heavily politicised one, albeit - of suburban dissatisfaction, with some sort of mild thriller-like plot to contour it. The verisimilar acting of the cast and nature of the dialogues is to be appreciated, although sometimes they decay straight into clichés.
The most notable thing is the fragmented storytelling, encompassing three different perspectives of the same event and one final chapter to top it all - hardly anything new, but still, the three characters are very different from each other: we get to see the point of view of an overzealous and greedy real estate agent, the one of an upper-class trophy wife, the one of an uncorruptible young girl who doesn't seem to really care for money at all.
It's quite interesting and well manufactured.…Expand