Woe to the vanquished — his story will be written by the winner! — a saying. In 2003, the Americans learned that their troops in Iraq had killed Saddam Hussein’s son. Before that, they thought their troops were busy fighting terrorists and overthrowing the tyrant Saddam, and then it turned out they were killing Iraqi sons. In General
overlooked the American propaganda this moment was not in the eyes of the Americans is not guilty of anything before America Uday Hussein — and the Americans also have sons die — and they felt sorry for Udaya.
In this film, the American viewer will be shown that Uday Hussein was a maniac and psychopath, an alcoholic and a drug addict, a rapist and a pedophile, a blasphemer and a latent homosexual, and more... he had a small penis! Here! They also called him the devil in the title of the film... in short, everything that can be hung on him! And the only link between Udei and America that the writers dug up is that he — maybe! — secretly visited Kuwait after Saddam invaded. So -
possibly! - after all, it is the fault of America!
An American citizen will watch this film and calm down: it means that Uday Hussein was not such a person whose death you can worry about.
At the beginning of the film, the viewer is promised to show a story based on the real life of Latif Yahia, the double of Uday Hussein - and the film in his honor is called "The Devil's Double". At the same time, no one promises the viewer that the life of Uday Hussein, shown in this film, is based on his real life! (By the way, even Wikipedia does not have accurate data about Udey Hussein - and this is not surprising, because the flow of information from Iraq is controlled by who? ...) And more: although the film is European, guess where it premiered?
And what about Latif Yahia? Unknown. The story of his life in the film is very superficial - he is the whole film that is called "nervously smoking on the sidelines" from Uday - and the source of this story is the same.
In short, if you are an amateur to learn history from American films, then this film is for you. P. S. I was particularly mocked by the writers’ idea that Uday had a small dick, because it reminded me of a similar prank from an episode of South Park about Osama bin Laden. In fact, according to statistics, the largest average size of the male sexual organ among all nationalities is observed in the Arabs! Well, that's me, by the way...
P. P.S. Here many wrote "what is this film about?", and
I thought "why did it shoot?" - and it turned out such a review.
2 out of 10
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