Robyn Sparkles

118. Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011)

I went into this expecting to be disappointed, but the film won me over in the very first shot. It’s far from perfect (the story is scattered and sometimes the film cares more about gears and old movies than human emotion) and yet that doesn’t stop it from being utterly magical. The world it creates is stunning - I half-wanted to be an orphan having adventures in a train station filled with clocks in 1930’s Paris. It was an enjoyable movie experience and I imagine I will revisit it in the future.

Other notes:

• I’m not a big fan of 3D, but it was well-used here
• It’s nice that this has the possibility to introduce new viewers to the early days of cinema
• Chloe Moretz’s character reminds me of the ones I used to love when I was a child getting lost in books and imagining adventures of my own