Magic Hugo

Rating: 8/10 (3 October 2014)

Martin Scorsese writes in 3D a beautiful love letter to the inventors of cinema. The Lumière brothers' invention,the cinema, is a machine and the purpose of this phenomenal and stunning machine is to move our feelings and to amaze us. The world of technological inventions meets the world of dreams and it's like magic. Scorsese shows us the extraordinary story of the man who transformed the machine of the Lumière brothers in art, creating the dream machine. Georges Méliès, the man who sent us to the moon for the first time. Hugo Cabret is an exciting and passionate study on the evolution of narrative through images. An innovative film from the technical point of view (Martin Scorsese for the first time uses the 3D) but that also goes to the rediscovery of the past, to the origins of cinema(with the great tribute to Georges Méliès). The atmosphere of Paris is enveloping, you feel in the gestures, characters and colors, but unfortunately this atmosphere is not reflected in the language, it would have been more authentic speak French. This movie is for everyone because we all dream at least once in our life. This film is for dreamers but also for those who no longer believe in dreams. This film is based on our dreams, on the ruin of them but also on their rebirth. There are a lot of unexpected developments and evolutions in the film. All the characters learn something,there are those who learn things for the first time like the two young adventurers and those who had given up but have also learned to re- open their numb eyes. I like the way the characters get in contact. Hugo doesn't lose hope, he finds and he follows his purpose. He doesn't give up in front of a broken object, he tries to repair it. He understands that we are all here for a reason