Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese invites you to experience a thrilling journey that critics are calling “the stuff that dreams are made of
Different people go to the movies for different reasons. Some of us want to be entertained. Some of us want enchanted. Some of us want to get involved with a story, or with a character that sticks in the mind after the film was completed. Some of us want to be transported to a different time or place. And some of us want to see talented actors to make a little magic in the hands of a skilled director.
Martin Scorsese Hugo do all these things. This, more than other movies I've seen this year, _why_ we go to the movies.
The film is based on the novel
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. If you have read this book, then you know the story already, but for others I would be careful here and not disclose anything that could damage the film. I would say that Hugo is about many things, but at its core, this is about obsession, a story of discovery and how one person can cause - and become intertwined with - the other.
The film is set in Paris in the 1930s, at a train station where a young orphan named Hugo (played by Asa Butterfield lure) live work space on the wall in the tower at the station and the central station. He spent most of his time keeping the station clock is running (so no one would come into a wall or tower and find a hiding place) and the pursuit of his obsession - fixing a man-shaped robot that is designed to write with a pen that his father (Jude Law) has been found in museum and trying to fix when he died in a fire. To feed themselves, scrounges Hugo and pilfers food from various food shops in the station, which attracted the attention of the station inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen). To feed his efforts to improve the robot, Hugo stole part of a toy shop in the station, run by the elderly Papa Georges (Ben Kingsley), who finally caught him in the act. He even befriended by Papa Georges god-daughter, a girl his age named Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz), who end up helping fix the automaton Hugo pursue his obsession. Yang, Hugo believed, had some secret message for him left by his late father. Where it ultimately leads to ... You should see the film. Tell you here will only ruin the joy of discovery film.
There are so many good things about
Hugo as the film that it is difficult to know where to start. At least I can start by saying that the look of the film itself is dazzling. Scorsese created the world in the world, bringing you first returned to Paris in the 1930s and from there into the hidden world of Hugo in the walls and the clock tower from the train station. And from there, other places are equally amazing. 3D is not wasted here and really add to the feel of the world Hugo of narrow passages and massive time keeping up with mechanisms that are very large but they are complicated, gear springs and pendulum all the moves. And the beauty of music Howard Shore score evoke the period throughout the film, adding a sense of being transported to a different time and place.
Another thing that makes Hugo so worth seeing is that Scorsese is one director who can bring out the best performance an actor has in it, who did a remarkable job from here, from veteran actors like Ben Kingsley and Christopher Lee for such a comparative newcomer Asa Chloe Grace Moretz and Butterfield.
And like the look of the set shows attention to detail, which fill the world with the character and he showed it to the train station come alive with regular residents, from the station inspector Sacha Boren Cohen interfering with leg brace and young flower seller is Lisette (Emily Mortimer ) he secretly longed for, for comic attempt at romance between Monsieur Frick (Richard Griffiths), an old newspaper seller who kept trying to seduce Madame Emile (Frances de la Tour), a cafe owner who dotes on his dog that attacked Monsieur Frick unfortunately every time he comes close. Scorsese also worked on several famous Parisian history of the period to the background, like a jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt (Emil Lager), artist Salvador Dali (Ben Addis) and the writer James Joyce (Robert Gill).
Highly, highly recommended for anyone who enjoys movies, and an absolute must-see for anyone who loves film and what it means for us.
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Hugo (Three-disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)!
