my college professor say that othello may be shakespeare fine drama . i do not know if i agree with him yet . i buy this video version of the film . first i love kenneth branagh a iago and he be perfectly complicate and work very well in this adaptation . surprisingly and he do not direct it but play a role . lawrence fishburne show that american actor can play shakespeare just as well a british actor can do . not that there be a british vs. american issue about it . in fact and if we all work together then shakespeare can reach the mass which it richly deserves to do . apart from other shakespeare tragedy and this be dealt with the issue of race . something that have exist since the beginning of time . the relationship between iago and emilia could have be good and show the complicatedness of their union together . while othello love desdemona with all his heart and he be weak for jealousy and fear lose her to a non moorish man like cassio . it quite a great scene at the end of the film but i would not reveal the end . it just worth watch . i think they edit much of the line to 2 hour but they always edit shakespeare .