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The scene that leapt out to me the most was the final scene, in which Hugo is being arrested just after Odin kills himself. This movie was depressing and tragic all around, and this final scene brought all the preceding events together as Hugo starts talking about living like a hawk.

In this scene, as images flash of all the victims of all the deceit and lies, Hugo says:

"All my life I always wanted to fly. I always wanted to live like a hawk. I know you're not supposed to be jealous of anything, but... to take flight, to soar above everything and everyone, now that's living. But a hawk is no good around normal birds. It can't fit in. Even though all the other birds probably wanna be hawks; they hate him for what they can't be. Proud. Powerful. Determined. Dark. Odin is a hawk. He soars above us. He can fly. One of these days, everyone's gonna pay attention to me. Because I'm gonna fly too. "

Throughout the movie, I couldn't seem to figure out Hugo's reasoning for going to such length's to sabotage Odin's life. It didn't seem as though he wanted to be with Desi. The only issue it seemed he had was that Odin got MVP, and Hugo felt he deserved it more. Hugo obviously was seeking some sort of reward for doing what he did, though I can't place my finger on it, but in the end everything blew up in his face and it didn't phase him a bit. Even when he was being taken away in a police car, he still insisted that someday he too would "fly". Perhaps his only problem was that he was a sociopath.

This scene shed some light on the kind of person Hugo truly was. We saw him as being manipulative and selfish, willing to do whatever it took to achieve his goals throughout the whole movie, but this final scene showed us that he was more than that, he was completely impervious to guilt, and had no sense of right or wrong, even when 5 people were dead because of him.