Friday, October 14, 2011

TY Film Club: First Film Review


Mr. Coldrick has compiled an interesting and challenging list of films for the TY Film Club this year. The aim is spark interest both in film itself and in the issues raised by those shown. Harry Johnson gives his summary of the first offering of 2011.

On the 4th October 2011 the Transition Year watched “O” in the Lower Argyle. It is a tale of trust, seduction, jealousy and betrayal based on William Shakespeare’s  Othello.

Odin and Desi are a couple but Hugo, Odin’s best friend through basketball is also in love with Desi. In his desperate jealousy of the girl, Hugo commits sins he would previously never have dreamed of. Throughout the film Hugo relies on Odin’s trust to stir up suspicion in the love relationship.

Hugo kills three times for Desi and plays the part too well so that Odin ends up killing Desi in rage and then himself. Moments before Odin’s suicide, he realises Hugo has betrayed him. The source of the information which leads to Odin’s revelation is Hugo’s third victim. At this stage, Hugo has driven two friends to their deaths and Desi, his reason for killing his friends is also dead.

Finally the police cars take Hugo away; he now has nothing, no friends, women or even any sympathy from his parents.

“O” was released in 1999 but was shelved for two years due to its similarities to the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre. Not wanting to reawaken fresh scars the film was re-released in 2001.

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