BIG Sarrab Questions (SPOILERS!)

I wouldn't bother. There was no Sarrab in Latif Yahia's book, so you can simply consider her a badly-written character who was thrown in to add mystique and romance.

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yea that part made no sense whatsoever,she risks her life by escaping and then rings uday as soon as she is in Malta with Latif,Uday would have no qualms about killing her aswell! I think the bit about having a kid was made up to maybe get Latif to back to Iraq, that whole bit was nonsensical

Yeah, yeah, I came onto this message board in the hope that someone could clear that up for me too. No such luck.

I thought that maybe the idea was that Uday told her to follow Latif around for a while, 'cos towards the end he knew Latif would try to flee; then Sarrab could call Uday up and tell him their whereabouts. You know, Uday told Sarrab to be a spy and betray Latif, otherwise he'd murder her or whatever.

That could be true. I mean it's really not clear at all, but it's not impossible. When she leaves Latif at the end, she's smiling a little, and says "Poor Latif." So she doesn't exactly seem heartbroken to be leaving his side.

Yeah, you know what, that's what I'm going for. Perhaps it's even simpler. Perhaps Uday didn't tell Sarrab to honeytrap Latif; perhaps after the two arrived in Malta, Sarrab came to and realised there's a good chance her asss is gonna end up dead, so she calls Uday, apologises, begs for forgiveness, and Uday tells her to try to convince Latif to return to Iraq...

...But then, why does Uday IMMEDIATELY get ahold of some hitmen to try to shoot Latif in broad funking daylight...?

Ah hell, I dunno. I did quite like this movie, but that was a horribly sloppy way to wrap things up.

I understand she may have been forced by Uday to call him...
what I don't get is why she waited so long. Why travel all the way to Malta?

Lets not forget Sarrab isn't exactly a great person as a character. She is obviously weak and Uday has such dominance over weak people that she probably thought he would find her and kill her if she didn't double-cross Latif. As other people said it doesn't really matter because in real life she didn't exist.

Frankly I think the only reason she was inserted in the screenplay was to have some sort of female presence and create a side story that could theoretically add to the tension. It was a mess though. Sarrab and Latif having the love affair behind Uday's back also kind of went in the face of Latif's otherwise calculating character. I think the director also went kind of full Brian de Palma mode in bringing in a pouty-lipped exotic femme fatale character along with sexual violence, camera trickery, and mountains of cocaine. The more I think about it, the more it was very much like a Brian de Palma film, which was definitely not a mistake.

Being a little familiar with the source material, I don't frankly understand why they went in the direction they did with the adaptation. The premise alone is all of the tension and motivation for the character you need. There is no need to add a romantic interest to the story. It would have been perfectly satisfying as a character study of one of the craziest men in recent history. Or as a full-blown exploitation film in the tradition of naziploitation films.