4/28/2023 0 Comments Punitive superego![]() ![]() The character is defined by a lack of barriers and absence of self-control. Uday is all id shrieking about his hatred of Jews and Kuwaitis in one moment and in the next standing in the middle of the street loudly proclaiming his love for a part of the female anatomy using a word that’s best not spoken in polite company. Like Whitaker, Cooper makes a three course meal of the part, masking his sociopathic behavior behind a giggle and a twinkle in his eye. Forced into servitude by fear and threats against his family, Latif watches on in ever mounting horror as Uday uses his autonomy to rape, torture and murder all the while grinning like the world is his own private sandbox. In some respects, Dominic Cooper’s performance in The Devil’s Double eclipses Whitaker’s degree of difficulty aside, you’d be hard pressed to find a performer on screen *more* than Cooper is here.Ī gimmick in the best sense of the word, British actor Cooper ( An Education) plays both Uday Hussein, entitled party boy and eldest child of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and Latif, Uday’s reluctant double, employed to make pesky public appearances and draw assassins fire while the real McCoy is off getting laid and doing mountains of coke. That’s the premise of The Devil’s Double, but it could just as easily refer to the 2006 film, The Last King of Scotland which won Forest Whitaker a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. They treat their new friend as a toy, becoming intensely possessive towards them and act like a violent, petulant child when their dancing marionette tries to cut free of their strings. ![]() They usher them into their inner sanctum, lavish them with gifts, riches and a taste of a better life they could only dream of. A sadistic but engaging Muslim leader takes an instantaneous liking to a soft-spoken outsider.
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