Othello (2001) (TV)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Geoffrey Sax

Escritores:

Andrew Davies (writer)
William Shakespeare (play)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

28 enero 2002 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

This modern crime drama uses the names of the homonymous Shakespeare play's main characters which inspired its plot...

Plot Keywords:

Police Commissioner | William Shakespeare | Interracial Relationship | Shakespeare In Modern Dress | Based On Play

Premios:

12 wins & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Is a crime of passion possible in such a context?

Reparto

Keeley Hawes	...	Dessie Brabant
Eamonn Walker	...	John Othello
Christopher Eccleston	...	Ben Jago
Christopher Fox	...	PC Adey
Allan Cutts	...	PC Stiller
Patrick Myers	...	PC Gaunt
Samantha McDonald	...	Woman in Crowd
Del Synnott	...	PC Alan Roderick
Andrew Charleson	...	Tommy Rogers
Bill Paterson	...	Sinclair Carver
Nicholas Gecks	...	Home Secretary
Richard Coyle	...	Michael Cass
Carl McCrystal	...	Geoffrey
Tim Faraday	...	Chief Superintendent
Tim Frances	...	Newspaper Editor

Duración:

Brazil:100 min

País:

UK | USA | Canada

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Compañía:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Conexiones de Película:

Version of Othello (1962) (TV)

Is a crime of passion possible in such a context?

Othello's story is moved nowadays when prejudices, racisms and all kinds of discriminations are constantly fought. The modern 'Othello' has two guidelines or two focuses: (1) racism and (2)sexual love.

(1)On the one hand Othello proves a rational, humanistic and open attitude against discrimination, (2) on the other hand he questions the 'purity' of his woman, even her purity before her marrying him. It seems a little bit strange that a man that fights prejudices finds hard to accept that his wife had a life before him (although she didn't have much of life, as we find out) and cannot find the wisdom in him to give her the benefit of the doubt.

But we know that Othello must kill Desdemona and a large part of the film focuses on Othello's obsession for her (Desdemona aka Dessie). There needs to be built the kind of love and sexual jealousy that leads to murder. And it is believable, but only if we take it out of the context and we ignore the status of this modern Othello. But if we take into consideration the forward-thinking context of today's story and the leading position of Othello in this context...well, I raise at least one eyebrow looking at Othello's actions.