Hugo Opening & Closing

The film Hugo begins with the parts of a clock ticking. Just as the beginning of a paper that has a thesis which tells you what the topic the writer is going to speak upon so does the beginning of Hugo. Scorsese utilized motion camera in order to zoom in and out on the most important aspects of the film. The parts of the clock ticking allows the viewer of the film to know clocks and part of the clock is going to play an important role of the film. Then the camera zooms out of the parts of the ticking clock and moves throughout the city of Pairs and to the train station. Speeding through the people moving in the train station and upwards towards the clock in the train station and behind the clock there is the face of a little boy behind the number four with a sad look on his face. At the end of the film Scorsese mimics the same camera motion he shows the outside of the house then other parts of the house. Before the film completely ends Scorsese zooms in on the auto bot which is what he wants the viewers to focus in on. The auto bot plays an important role in the essence of the film. The auto bot is all Hugo had to remember his father after he dies. The bot is a symbol for memory as well as mystery that Hugo finally figures out which makes his life complete once he put the pieces to the puzzle together.  It ends zoomed on the auto bot face to show the film viewer's that without the auto bot it would've never been a film plot.