The world needs fixing

Rating: 10/10 (28 November 2011)

Lovely movie, with the story every bit as magical as the special effects. The acting, the screenplay, the music, the editing, all flawless. And the paradox at the core - a movie about time and temporality is also about the timeless quality of all that's important...family, relationships, the things we all long for, and then rather than leave all of the metaphors and symbols up for grabs, he dares to offer an answer, a moral answer: We're all broken. So we have three choices in life. Be someone who breaks things, be someone who fixes things, or be someone who just stands there, bemused and bewildered, doing nothing. For many years Scorsese has been doing his best to fix the problem of decaying films. With "Hugo" he shows how love can fix almost everything, and that yes, the world is filled with things that are broken, but that we're put here to work. See a problem? Get busy.