An innocent film with a good message

Rating: 9/10 (25 February 2012)

I was worried walking into this film, mainly because I hoped the film would meet up to the praise that the film has rightly met, but my mind was put at ease during the opening shot and straight away the film captured the beauty of Paris. The whole visual of the city was polished, sophisticated and artistic. The production design has to be praised. The synopsis does not give away what makes this film so magical, and this is a good thing too. But what I am allowed to tell you is that it actually has a good message about how Hugo believes the world is like a big machine and that everyone must have a purpose in it, just like a machine's parts has purpose for the machine it will become (if that makes sense) The film had such an innocence and a comforting feel to it. Asa (Hugo) and Chloe (Isabelle) were quite good, I don't really like them as actors to be honest (I like the boy much better than the girl though) but I wanted to not let that spoil the film for me, and it didn't. Because they actually fitted quite well into the film, they had a good screen chemistry. The whole film is a great homage to cinema as well (but I can't tell you how they do it otherwise it would be a spoiler) watch it for yourself and you'll see what an amazing film this is. Who knew Martin Scorsese could make a clean film without anything offencive in it? ;D