Hugo Cabret - it's magical...

I rewatched it yesterday. First time I was enchanted by it, thought it was kind of magical, and after some months yesterday I rewatched it.. and thought exactly the same. It's a beautiful film, can't think of a thing that I don't like, lights are perfect, costumes are perfect, the set design is perfect... okay if I really had to find a flaw, I didn't particularly like the station inspector for two reason: 1 I'm not a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen, and 2 he was the (sort of) villain, trying to arrest Hugo because he was an orphan. But of course a film, just like any fairytale, needs a villain, so it's okay. The story is simple, set in Paris around 1930, and this kid lives alone hidden in a train station, stealing food and trying to repair the only thing he has left after his father died, and he will find a secret that will change his life ... :-D Absdolutely beautiful, the magic of cinema-making, the wonder, the fascination... and we discover it through the eyes of a kid and his only friend, a young girl played by Chloe Moretz, and watching it you feel a kid again yourself. Oh I love it.
SPOILERS from now on, just a warning if you don't want to know the details don'd go on.
Everything is magical, the train station with her warm light and people starting their jobs, opening the bar, setting the flowers, everything makes you feel in old Paris even before you notice their clothing or see the Eiffel Tower. Hugo lives alone in the railway station, and after his uncle who used to work there disappeared he kept working on his place so noone would suspect  and go looking. He goes about 'secret passages' and knows steals whatever food he can to survive and tools he needs to repair an automaton, the only thing left of his father. Before he died, they used to work at it together. His father had found it abandoned, and broken, but was really keen on repairing it.
Trying to steal more tools Hugo gets caught by the toymaker who is really grumpy and not nice, but the atmosphere is so fairytale you don't get too worried, just wait to see how it'll sorted out.
This toymaker played by Ben Kingsley is George Melies, who was a real person, who reinvented cinema, bringing it to another level, and really made the movies we see or hear about in this film here. Up till now you were in a sort of Dickens-style world filled with fairytale air, but know the magic begins , when the automaton gets repaired and starts drawing the famous image of  a moon with a sort of human face with a rocket in its eye from "A trip to the moon" the 1902 film . Then the 2 kids discover who George is, and listen to his story, and it's all sort of magical, and I know that in a way it's strange because those films and special effects are childish now, but seeing it with the eyes of two 1930s kids is absolute magic, because Melies invented it, fantasy-sciencefiction with the trip to the moon, horror with Faust, and all kinds of strange adventures... and him being a magician before starting cinema, he made a lot of special effects, creating montage and even colour... Even Christopher Lee's character, bookstore owner Mr Labisse, who knows where you can find anything you need, and who gives a book to Hugo because "he sends books to a good home" , where they are needed or where they should be. Even him. Magic!

When the film ends is hard to go back to your real age, though..