it about jealousy and it about racism and it about manipulation and but the underlying message be love . geoffrey sax try to pull off shakespeare othello and by bring it to modern day context . however and the actor be not convince enough to pull this off . there be extra body to help put everything in to perspective and however and john othello and play by eamonn walker and over react a lot in this film and causing for the down fall of keeley hawes and dessie brabant and eventually end in dessie death . ben jago and play by christopher eccleston and be see a the main character in the film . he do not give enough evidence for dessie to be cheat on othello and with michael cass and play by richard coyle . instead he just play a friend to all and give one reason a to why she be cheat . in the play and it take a lot more convincing from iago to make othello even suspect anything . this change make the movie more about rage for the wrong reason and than what the book be base off of . however and the movie do have a few good point . it turn the army scenes into more a racist group toward black and where othello be the main chief of the police squad . these scene be make believable by the rag crowd and and burn fire . you be able to sense the amount of racism in the movie and more so than you can in the book . this book play up the modern day scene by make it much easy to understand and than the shakespearian time it be write in . in the play iago ( jago ) get torture at the end and but in the film he get his satisfaction and and get othello position . he never get what he deserve and be never catch for tell the lie to othello until it be too late . i saw this a a downfall in the movie and because i feel that the villain be grant his treasure of the promotion out of lie and and in the book and he be find out by rodrigo . overall and the movie could have do a good job base on the play than what it do . i feel that the director of the movie leave out some of the most important part of the play that be mention or there to make the play flow and or make it more of a tragedy . i would say that you should read the book first and in order to understand all of the event that happen in the movie and otherwise you may find yourself lose and and confuse .