1) How did Latif escape? What happened to his family? 2) Why did Sarrab betray him? 3) What kind of permanent injury did Uday suffer after Latif shot him?
1) He escaped with the help of the CIA. There was a lot of intelligence work involved in Iraq after the war. It also had extremely poor control of the borders, and going into any of the Kurdish areas would have been relatively easy to get into Turkey or Iran (Syria would be a no-go). His father was killed, what happened to his mother and the rest of his family is unknown. It's quite likely that they vanished.
2) She betrayed him because she had family in Iraq that would be hurt. She jumped at the chance to get out, but once she was out she realized that it was a death sentence (and worse) for everyone she ever knew.
3) Uday had extreme difficulty with his genitals after being wounded. He was also crippled shortly after the assassination attempt by a hand grenade. His unofficial nick-name was Captain of the Unich Brigade because of the damage that he suffered. His personal affects that were discovered when he was killed included a special backfitting device that he should wear during sexual situations.
As for Uday being one dimensional, he was portrayed pretty much the way he acted. We are supposed to see the complexity of the double, not Uday. Uday was a one dimensional sociopathic rapist.
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13 years ago
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i_am_switch
13 years ago
Well, I don't think that it really fit with the film to cover the rest of the info. They fictionalized the romantic twist in the film so that it wouldn't be a sausage laden rape fest, and they wanted to have someone the lead could get close to and then be betrayed by. I also doubt that the double was the man who shot Uday in the junk. I think that it was fictionalized to be him so that it would be easier to include in the context of the film.
His real escape route (according to him) was what I suspected, he fled to the Kurdish north and then contacted the CIA somehow. I would imagine they snuck him into Turkey and then out of the country. This was lightly alluded to when they mentioned at the beginning of the film that his grandfather was a Kurd.
As far as the injury goes, I thought it was pretty self evident that he was shot in the genitals.
As far as no sociopath being one dimensional goes, Uday was portrayed in this film extremely accurately. From an outsider's perspective who met him at that point in his life, he was very much like what we see on screen. In his earlier years he acted extremely the same. He would get violent and attack kids at school, yell at the teachers. He was attending an all boys school and he would show up in flashy sports cars and bring his girlfriends with him. When one of his teachers asked "why do you bring her here? this is a boys school." he vanished the next day. Uday's development into a monster transpired extremely early in life when Saddam would take him on "field trips" at I believe around age 7 or 8 and they would watch people being tortured.
There were other attrocities that he personally took part in, which are also alluded to in the film. The torture of the Olympic soccer team for instance, but the film is limited to the period of time that his double was in his life.
What makes most sociopathic rapist serial killers multi-dimensional is the fact that they hide so well and lead such a double life (Bundy, GRK, BTK, etc) but Uday didn't have to hide anything. He actually did everything in a pretty open manner.
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i_am_switch
13 years ago
Well, I don't know if Uday was "forced" to watch or not. It was something that he saw from an extremely young age, and thus it was quite common place.
Uday walked and lived in a completely different world than even most world leaders. Not portrayed in the film is his exile after murdering Saddam's pimp. He was "sent" to Switzerland to work for the embassy in that country. He didn't last very long there before he was kicked out. He threatened (and possibly attempted) to murder someone in a restaurant. Yeah, it was apparently rather public.
The director/writers worked with the material that they had. This was pretty exclusive to the bio of the double. I think they worked hard to include the general persona of Uday. I'm not certain that he did in fact ever sleep with a transvestite, but it would fit in with his character. He insulted islam pretty much every day.
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heatherblue1008
13 years ago
This movie was about Latif. Uday was a secondary character. If you know your history you knew what happened to Uday after the assination attempt. And then you knew what happened to him during the Iraq war a few years ago.
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