Amin really bad? I'd be kind of angry too if somebody knocked up my wife
AND wanted to poison me.
Not that I would have actually done any of those things, but I certainly would have had bad intentions towards my ill-doer.
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He kind of deserved it for finding it funny that the doctor was screwing his boss's wife at the clinic. But then again that white boy was such a vile worm, he was really being charitable for not squashing him on sight
shareWell, disregarding all the political dissenters he had murdered before said events in the film's plot, yes I'd say Amin was a pretty normal guy.
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Yep sometimes he had a pretty good reason to be mad. And yep sometimes some of his suspicions were correct (so were Joseph Stalin's:-).
But that doesn't explain why there were 300,000 dead, nor why his countrymen disliked him so much they exiled him. By the end (I'm an old guy who remembers:-) he really did have a terrible international reputation; it was pretty much agreed at that time that he was the worst dictator in the world.
One of his wives. I find that pretty hypocritical. I have no sympathy for a man who has multiple wives being cheated on. As a polygamist, he effectively cheated on his wife (well, all three of them) regularly. But sure, what Nicholas did was so stupid (and wrong).
shareThe other thing to keep in mind is that Amin did not go near with third wife after the health problems of the son were revealed.
But I agree that the doctor was crazy to go near her especially at that time he had started to realize what a crazy man Amin was.
Well, the 'wife' subplot was just dramatic license, to turn it into a 'thriller' in which that Scottish doctor just barely escapes Uganda alive. Keep in mind that Adin was a true tyrant, guilty for many innocent lives being lost.
shareWell, the 'wife' subplot was just dramatic license, to turn it into a 'thriller' in which that Scottish doctor just barely escapes Uganda alive. Keep in mind that Adin was a true tyrant, guilty for many innocent lives being lost.
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