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A liitle sympathy for Hugo?

posted 17 years ago by mae680
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Does anyone feel a little sympathy for Hugo? I'm not trying to justify what he did at all, but look at it from his POV: everyone in the school praises O like he's a God while he works just as hard and is left in the doldrums. Not to mention his own father treats him like crap and treats O like he's the Golden Child. At the beginning when Hugo's father says, "I love him like my own son" to O, that HAD to hurt. Again, not justifying what he did, but I can see why Hugo would do what he did.

[–] Crazyonyou 17 years ago

Absolutely, who can't fail to be moved by the way Hugo is treated? Certainly not any of us who have felt overshadowed by sibling or friend.
And a lot of the sympathy we feel for him is generating by the performance.

[–] dg_hurley 17 years ago

um, i have a soft spot in my <3 for psycho-paths :)

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[–] Roar_Girl 17 years ago

Definitely.
By the end of O you feel so much more sympathy for Hugo than you feel for Iago in Othello. You feel much much more annoyed with Odin than you do Othello as well.

[–] Mary84 16 years ago

I disagree. NO sympathy for Hugo at all...There's no excuse for what he did. Jealousy is one of the ugliest feeling ever.

[–] Hydra_88 16 years ago

I did.

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[–] lsevenl 16 years ago

Yeh. In the end its all such a waste. If Hugo had gotten a bit more recognition from his father than perhaps it could have been avoided. You can see that he feels like hes going un noticed with all the hard work hes putting into school and sport. Obviously though you what he did was wrong.

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[–] gregbizkit2001 8 years ago

Actually there's just a lot of excuses for what he did. I think he was justified and I think most people who have handled the situation much worse. Hugo was actually pretty lenient and kind in the way he went about things.

[–] alpez 16 years ago

If God were to reside in the mind of men, I wouldn't say that a different God lived in Othello than that of Iago. Iago was always a part of Othello. He listened to him because he wanted to listen to him. He only believed what he wanted to. No doubt he loved Desmodenia, but he ended up killing her not because he was provoked or blinded by deceit of other men, it was because he wanted to kill her. Somewhere, deep down inside, he knew she was too perfect to be true. And so to not let this perfection dissolve, he had to destroy it. Desmodenia and himself. Iago just laid out the path for Othello...

[–] Shedmaster-3 16 years ago

That's one of the things I didn't like about O vs. Othello. Iago was so purely evil, you NEVER knew why he did what he did, he was just pure unadulterated evil. Hugo however, WAS a sympathetic character because of what he endured from his father, etc. Changes the dynamic of one of literature's most brilliantly written characters.

My opinion.

[–] Beckybarbados 16 years ago

I think it's a bit of that Josh Hartnett Charm ;) I had a completely different reaction to to 'Iago' in the traidtional Othello.

[–] almonddingeyes 16 years ago

I just saw this movie, and I feel so much pity for Hugo. I keep wondering what would have happened if at least one person made him feel loved.

[–] waspfan33 16 years ago

all hugo did was basic human nature.jealousy breeds anger breeds envy breeds contempt then revenge,and done so simply by planting seeds all around ,the seeds of distrust.all he had to do was make desi and mike and roger and odin all mistrust and distrust each other and make them see what i call ghosts,things u think u see that arent really there and dont exist.its like taking a statement out of context sometimes makes it look in and of itself much differently that it appeared in the original context.thats all hugo did,he made all the normal innocent everyday activities appear to be lewd underhanded conspiracies against him and made everyone look suspect even over the most innocent activities and comments.it truly was a real representation of highschool.all u have to do is make everyone believe what u want them to believe or what they want to believe themselves already,and u got em where u want em.simple rumors and propaganda and some smoothly coldy delivered *beep* and lies can go a long way.hugo proved it.and when motivated by anger revenge envy and jealousy,it can be even deadly effective.

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[–] ghetto_princess_m 15 years ago

I had no sympathy for Hugo, as well as Josh Hartnet played the part, I still think he was a looser and needed to get over the fact that other people were happy like Othello and Desi. If he wasnt, then too bad, find another hobby. I dont blame Hugo for everything also, Othello did not have to rape or kill Desi.

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[–] JCrewgirl 15 years ago

Well yeah but only a little. I mean there is nothing wrong with loving someone else like your own son as long as you pay your own some attention too but Hugo's dad didn't do that. I don't blame him for wanting some revenge but NOT conspiring murders though!

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[–] devoelodi 15 years ago

To me, he was Iago.

[–] glassrose385 15 years ago

I felt sorry for Hugo because of how he was treated by his father and some of the people in the school. Sometimes people on a pedestal only brings out anger, jealousy and envy in people. We have all these feelings at one time or another in our lives. The things Hugo did weren't justified and in the end the only satisfaction he was that with those people dead no one would again overpraise them.

[–] Movie_Piranha_1979 15 years ago

Absolutely! By the end of the movie every single person that watch this moovie with me felt sympathy for the character of Hugo.

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[–] ChocolateFrankenstein 15 years ago

It's kind of hard to have sympathy for an amoral sociopath, that's all I'm going to say.

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