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“Hugo” may prove to be a divisive film. It’s surely going to win over cinephiles, but there’s still a question about whether its old-fashioned storybook mien will connect with modern-day audiences. However, the patient viewer will be rewarded, especially in the film’s magical finale, which arguably ranks among the most moving and loving sequences Scorsese has ever committed to celluloid. The film hits theaters in its fully completed form right before the Thanksgiving weekend on November 23rd.
Visual appeal is a huge part of Hugo that will presumably be even better when the movie is finished, and I imagine a second viewing might put less focus on the unnecessarily complicated narrative, which often pauses or veers in illogical directions for the sake of putting more beauty on screen. Set for a Thanksgiving release, it has a lot of the warm holiday charm of the early Harry Potter movies, but with a fierce love for cinema and an uncommon cast of characters that makes it unique, and maybe even better suited for adults than for kids. Uncle Marty is taking us to film school and using all his cinematic magic to make us like it; even if a history lesson isn't what you come in for, you'll probably leave glad to have enrolled.
Hugo is a film that everyone should see, but not because it appeals to a mass audience. Scorsese has crafted a work that educates as much as it entertains, and one that I appreciate more than inherently love. It has the power to be that one experience to turn a casual young moviegoer into a lifelong film fanatic. After all, a young Martin Scorsese was probably no different than Hugo Cabret himself.
Hugo is magical, thanks to Scorsese's insistence to soak every frame in his love for cinema. The both a love letter to film and plea for people to take a gander at movies of yesteryear. Even with the movie's misgivings—in current form, the action becomes a little weighed down by its balancing act between Film 101 lecture and conventional character journey—but from moment one I was gripped by the movie's heart and soul. But that might be the problem—can everyone luxuriate in the otherworldliness of movie magic or do people need more from their own movie-going experience? Compared to a "kids movie" like Real Steel, Hugo is quiet, reserved and romantic—maybe not an eight-year-old's cup of tea, but certainly the movie that could sell a tween on the a lifetime of movie-watching.
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