Hugo
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(Running time: 127 Minutes) Rated PG
Starring Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield
This dark, beautiful movie is not for younger kids though the rating is PG. It’s a touching story about a young orphan boy, Hugo (Butterfield), living in a Paris train station in 1925. His father was a clock maker and fixer of things. When he died, the boy’s uncle, in charge of winding the clock in the station, took in the boy. He taught the lad how to wind the clocks so he wouldn’t have to, gave him a bed in the station, then disappeared.
Hugo maintained the clock and continued to live there, pilfering food and hiding from the gendarme (Cohen) who patrols the station with a Doberman Pinscher. Hugo has a run-in with an older man (Kingsley) who sells toys at a small shop. The man’s granddaughter and Hugo become friends and he shows her his secret hiding places and how to sneak into the movies.
I can’t say enough about the charm of the location, the sets and the supporting characters in this movie. You feel the flavor of the times as you are pulled into the lives of these characters. There is no violence, sex or bad language here simply a strong, complex story well told. The movie is too long, complicated and too adult in theme for younger children. Scenes where an orphaned boy is thrown in a cage and hauled off to the orphanage might be frightening to children under the age of 11 or 12. But for older children and adults, Hugo is a magical journey into the past.
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