unique Martin Scorsese movie

Rating: 9/10 (21 October 2014)

Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) is an orphan living in a Paris train station. He is fascinated with toy shop owner Papa Georges (Ben Kingsley) and his goddaughter Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz). He steals to survive and hounded by station Inspector Gustave Dasté (Sacha Baron Cohen). It turns out that he's been maintaining the station clocks as taught by his drunken absent uncle Claude. He is a mechanical genius trying to repair his father's life project, an automaton (mechanical man). His father (Jude Law) found it rusted, abandoned in the museum, and without the key. He was killed in a fire. Papa Georges confiscates Hugo's notebook and threatens to burn it. Papa Georges is hiding a secret past and forbids Isabelle from seeing any movies.
This is one of the most unique Martin Scorsese movie. The kids are great. The visuals are gorgeous. Scorsese is doing something completely out of his realm. At first, Ben Kingsley is playing a very mean-spirited man. As the movie develops, it becomes evident that this man is broken from his connection to the movie industry. It's probably something that is fascinating to Scorsese. He makes it fascinating to the audience. He bring his vision to life.