Martin Scorsese’s Amazing 3D In HUGO Cured One Man’s Vision

It turns out that Martin Scorsese is not just a master of cinema, but apparently ophthalmology as well!

According to WorstPreviews, Bruce Bridgeman, a 67-year-old man who has been stereoblind (not able to perceive depth correctly) for years, was cured of his illness when he went to see HUGO 3D last year!

Bridgemen explained that when he would go out with his family, he wouldn’t be able to see the same layers that everyone else would be able to see:

“When we’d go out and people would look up and start discussing some bird in the tree, I would still be looking for the bird when they were finished…For everybody else, the bird jumped out. But to me, it was just part of the background.”

But when Bridgemen went to see HUGO with his wife, deciding to pay the little extra for the 3D for her, even though he wouldn’t be able to enjoy it, something just clicked…and stayed with him even after they left the theater!

“It was just literally like a whole new dimension of sight. Exciting…I was astonished to see a lamppost standing out from the background…Trees, cars, even people were more vivid than I had ever experienced.”