The movie "O" brings to modern life Shakespeare's tale of Othello. In watching it, we can see the ease of manipulating other people. Hugo, played by the oh-so-good looking Josh Hartnett, plays the villain (Iago) who is the "brains" behind the series of events. In the movie, many of the same situations occur as in the play, and it is easy to see the correlation between the two. Because the story of Othello is brought to modern terms, the situations in it can be applied to our everyday lives, and not just things that would happen in the past, or during Shakespeare's time. I think the most important thing to take away from this movie is that people are easily manipulated, and those being manipulated do not even realize. Odin, for example, was made to believe Dezi was cheating on him, based on what Hugo was telling him.
The real question is: can we really trust what others are telling us? Like Odin and Hugo, Odin took drastic action on the basis of what Hugo told him, and never questioned what Hugo said. Like the characters in the movie, I feel we can all relate to this and question how much we can believe of what other people tell us. Do they have ulterior motives? Are we, like Odin, simply naive pawns of other people, just waiting to be toyed with? And if so, what can we do to protect ourselves, without becoming cynical and guarded people?
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