Enabling in "O"

The entire premise for the movie "O" is the deception that Hugo uses to destroy the lives of everyone around him. What he is doing is evil, and should not be tolerated. He should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, and yet, we watch the movie, and feel almost as if he is not responsible for his actions. The directors did such a good job portraying him as the victim of neglect by his father that the view feels sorry for him. By feeling sorry for him, you are just giving in to what he wants, and falling for his lies in the same way that the other characters in the novel do. By giving him a reason to do what he does, it defeats the point of the lack of motives that Shakespeare portrays. The directors of the movie realized that a character acting in a mean or vindictive way for no reason would probably not go over well with viewers, so they gave him a reason, they enabled him. I think that Shakespeare purposely left the reason for Iago's action ambiguous to leave it up to the reader to infer their own opinions. Movies tend to take this ambiguity out and they leave nothing to the imagination of the viewer. I think that the way Shakespeare does it is much more satisfying, because you can truly infer that Iago is evil, and not give him a reason to do the horrible misleading that he does.