Scorsese Makes Another Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2011)

Scorsese is without a doubt one of the greatest living, if not the best, American film directors. His filmography is beyond compare in terms of its consistency of quality and diversity of genres covered. With Hugo, he has made one of his most personal films, as it deals with a young boy who discovers and falls in love with cinema. What sets Hugo apart from other family films from the likes of Pixar and Disney is that it does not resort to cloying pop culture references, and it respects the intelligence of both children and adults.
Most significantly, Hugo is in the end a love letter to film, to the wonder and awe that the first films and filmmakers felt as they created moving images. Scorsese is saying that this love for the film medium has been steadily depleted with the advancement of technology, but ironically, Scorsese is using the latest cinematic technology (3D), and using it to comment upon film history.
SPOILER ALERT!
The homage scene of silent films at the end of Hugo left the audience in tears, and Hugo is, without a doubt, one of Scorsese's top five films.