Rooted contributor, Cameron Cole, recently posted this piece on the Mockingbird Blog (an absolute slam dunk gem of a blog for pop culture examples of the Gospel) offering insight into the orphaned teenage soul via the movie, Hugo. Here is an excerpt and link to the full article.
The protagonist in the movie Hugo offers valuable insight
into the primal motivation at the core of every soul. Hugo, an orphan
in Paris, engages in a persistent – almost obsessive – endeavor to
repair an automaton, which his father worked on before dying during
Hugo’s childhood. Unknown to the audience for much of the movie, Hugo’s
project is driven by the hope of discovering a message from his late
father to him, hidden within the machine.
Hugo never discloses specifically what he hopes that
message will be, but one only can assume that the words he seeks are
the very ones every person wants to hear from his or her parents.
Hugo’s
sense of estrangement and hope for some kind of connection with his
distant father mirrors the universal impulse of the human heart. At the
same time, it also resembles a prevalent ailment in present-day teen
culture.....
The Orphaned Teenage Soul on Mockingbird
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