Hugo

Rating: 10/10 (24 September 2013)

I found this movie.... inspiring. And because I do not want to rob anyone of discovering it's beauty for themselves, I've checked off the "spoiler" box...So go watch it and then come back and read this or do the reverse...whatever works.
It has all the components a good movie should have, authenticity for capturing the essence of the era in which it took place (1930's Paris), a story line filled with imagination and characters that worked together like cogs of a clock. When brought together as a whole, there was this undeniably, palpable sweet tenderness between them, that is so often hard to come by.
I had wanted to see this movie for some time now but it had fallen off my radar, until last week during an impromptu visit to the library, when I cam across it. The first thing that came to mind was a dream I had awhile back, where I heard the character Hugo from the movie, say his name "Hugo, Hugo Cabre". Naturally I had to check it out.
These were a few things that stayed with me...
1. Quote said by Hugo: Everything has a purpose, clocks tell you the time, trains take you to places. I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts. you know. they always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured if the entire world was one big machine...I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.
2. Hugo, looking out into his day, specifically through the number 4, on the station clock.
3. In the scene where Georges Méliès, is in a flashback burning all the things that he once held so dear to his heart. It made me come to terms with a moment back in my time, when, in a similar dramatic fashion, I went through letting go of all the things I felt so passionately about.
I imagine, you too, can take something significant from watching this film.