svikasha The Devil's Double tells the story of an Iraqi youth named Latif who is forced into taking a job as the "double" for the son of Iraq's now infamous former- dictator, Saddam Hussein. While the attention to detail and historical accuracy is not on the same level as HBO's iconic adaptation of Hussein's story in the miniseries House of Saddam, the Devil's Double does offer a different perspective. While HBO's show focused on the Hussein family and Saddam himself, the Devil's Double depicts the barbaric Hussein family from the perspective of an outsider in the form of Latif. Dominic Cooper takes on a dual-role in this film, playing both Latif and the primary antagonist Uday Hussein, the malicious eldest son of Saddam. The movie opens with authentic graphic footage from the Iran–Iraq War, a conflict started by the Hussein regime that lasted nearly a decade and cost Iraq over $500 billion. Although the war rages on, it is immediately made clear that the main character, Latif, is being escorted away from the front. Instead, Latif is brought to an opulent palace in two gleaming black Mercedes cars. It's hard not to pick up on the dark contrast between the reality of the war front that was just depicted and the palace that Latif is brought to. At this point it should be mentioned that most people with a keen knowledge of the Saddam Hussein regime agree that, despite all of the cruel and inhumane things that Saddam Hussein did during his brutal regime, his son Uday Hussein would have been far worse for Iraq. The Devil's Double offers a harrowing portrait of life under the thumb of a brutal dictator's regime. Uday Hussein, the son of Iraq's president Saddam Hussein offers Latif a job due to his striking resemblance to Uday. Hussein requests that Latif becomes his, "fedai", or body double to serve as a decoy in case of an assassination attempt. Latif naively refuses initially, but after being imprisoned and tortured, agrees, reluctantly. He eventually comes to understand the extent of the danger that is present to both him and his family. The job offer from Uday was never something that could have been refused. Latif learns just how cruel Uday Hussein really is from having to serve as Hussein's "fedai". Uday forces Latif to accompany him everywhere, while he cruelly tortures, kidnaps, humiliates, and assaults the people of Iraq for his own amusement. Nobody is immune to the devil's assault. Uday regularly kidnaps schoolgirls on their way home from primary school in exotic sports cars to rape them. At one point, he forces his dinner guests to undress in front of him for his birthday. Uday tortures men, women, and children for perceived slights and humiliations known only to him. Nobody can stop Uday who is the son of the most powerful man in the country. Latif is caught in the crosswind. The most haunting scene in the entire film happens when Uday Hussein sees a pretty bride wearing her wedding dress at her own wedding. Aroused, Hussein cruelly asks his bodyguard to bring the bride to his hotel room so he can rape her on her wedding day. The guards comply. After the harrowing event, the film depicts the bride bloodied and in a state of shock. She then leaves the hotel room and jumps off of the roof to commit suicide. Witnessing such senseless barbarity on a regular basis naturally takes its toll on Latif's sanity. At one point in the film, Latif slits his own wrists just to see if Uday will even let him die of his own volition. Latif is immediately given medical treatment and is basically denied the ability to even end his own life. It's hard to tell when the Devil's Double is being gratuitous and when it is being accurate. But the true history of Saddam Hussein's brutal and repressive regime is far from clean or sanitary. So perhaps the film's depiction of sexual violence and blood do justice to the gruesome subject matter. Some might feel that the blood and sexual violence should have been cut out from the film altogether to make it more palatable. In the movie's adaptation, the groom of the bride who committed suicide joins forces with Latif and together the two scorned individuals get revenge by making an assassination attempt on Uday Hussein's life. Unfortunately, in real life, the groom with the abducted bride committed suicide as well by shooting himself in the head at his own wedding. Uday Hussein cruelly continued to torment Iraq until he was eventually killed by United States forces in 2003. His corpse was shown on national television and his death was very much celebrated across Iraq. Those who can't handle this film's toned down version of the historical events cannot handle the real history.

omar elbehery Latif Yahia or gentle Salhi, a former Iraqi military officer in the category of Special Forces claims taken by Uday Hussein, son of the former Iraqi president like him. Latif Yahia, who belongs to the Kurdish nationalist, he grew up in Baghdad and studied in the same private school that Uday was studying there. Uday was forced in September 1987 to work like him and go instead to dangerous places, doctors performed surgery to the upper jaw in order to conform with the deformed jaw of Uday and so could not be uttered R symbols. After being optimized in many tortured by Uday at Guantanamo Radwaniyah in 1991, he fled to Iraqi Kurdistan in 1991 and then moved to Austria with the help of American intelligence and lived there disguised until the year 1995 and tried the CIA recruited to their advantage but he refused their demands, despite helping him to escape from Iraq, but he refused to be an agent for them and this Harepetth CIA was kidnapped in Vienna, Austria, in 1994 and tortured and imprisoned for more than ten and a half months and fled then to London and there subjected to an assassination attempt by agents of Ahmed Chalabi, who claimed that Iraqi intelligence was behind the incident and all of these events and others by gentle Yahya in his latest book, the role of the customer in the invasion of Iraq, the book banned in Ireland and the United States of America to the Scriptures of serious information affecting the rule Iraq after the occupation and the role of the CIA in the Iraqi opposition, which was located in London, the book named 'tHE BLACK HOLE support has donated the proceeds of the book to a private hospital for children

GameAndWatch I'm a big fan of Dominic Cooper, but he's not enough to save this truly bizarre and puerile film.The film starts off with Uday hiring a doppleganger of himself (Latif), to pass off as him publicly. Latif, hasn't really a choice, and is portrayed as having some morals, Uday is portrayed as a millionaire playboy, who is a murdering brute who gets off on violence, sodomy and rape. His only redeeming quality is his penchant for 80s British synth pop (?).The film becomes increasingly outlandish. If it were a true story, then this could have been quite fascinating. I learnt nothing, and by the end had tuned out. It reminded me of the last king of Scotland, which I didn't enjoy either.I thought it were unnecessary for Cooper to play both the leads. It felt unbelievable as both characters appeared unrealistically identical.I knew nothing of the back story of Uday, a quick glance at Wikipedia describes him as quite the devil. That much the film gets right. There's some artistic license used at the end of the movie.

poddylobo I did not expect to enjoy this film. I decided to give it a go as a way of increasing my knowledge of the world and recent past events (or rather decreasing my ignorance), but then got so much more out of it.The basic premise reminded me of The Parent Trap. Not so surprisingly, however, Cooper does a much better job than Lohan of keeping each character distinct. Our warmth towards Latif grows in the same measure as our disgust towards Uday.The only difficulty characterwise is in understanding why Uday behaves the way he does. But I guess this is what makes us hate him rather than pity him. The fact that he's a complete mamma's boy is a nice touch, however, and adds a little bit more texture to the character.Like The Parent Trap, there's some mild humour running through. Unlike The Parent Trap, the violence is anything but mild.So by the end of the film I have fulfilled my objectives of learning more about the world (Iraq-Kuwait war, Hussein family) and seen a moving film with good characters in the bargain.