Casablanca

Movie Poster 1942

At first when I watched Casablanca I thought it was going to be your basic love story where two people fall in love, they go through a rough patch, and then at the end they live happily ever after. Like the Notebook or really anything written by Nicholas Sparks. Although I was right about the movie being about love, it was about so much more and really made me think more about what the director was trying to get across.

Casablanca has a few underlying themes including; friendship and sacrifice. I first realized friendship was an important part of the movie when I put it together that Sam, Ilsa, and Rick all knew each other before and that Sam and Rick stuck together even after all that time. They proved that a real friendship will last a lifetime. Sacrifice can be anything from taking a bullet for someone to just sacrificing a life on Candy Crush. In Casablanca the relationship between Ilsa and Rick is what takes the hit. Throughout the movie you can tell that what they had was real and that they gave up a lot in order to do the right thing.

I think the main idea of Casablanca is to show the viewers the complexity of human relationships. Throughout the movie we see how close and loyal Rick and Sam are but we also how torn Sam is when Ilsa is back in the picture wanting him to bring up old memories. We see the relationships between soldiers and their spouses and how they don't want to lose a moment together. I think the movie does a good job of showing that every choice that a person makes impacts not only themselves but people around them.

Overall, I thought Casablanca was good movie. The movie made me keep watching just so I could find out what would happen between Ilsa and Rick. I secretly rooted for Rick and Ilsa to get back together but the ending proved the point that sometimes you have to sacrifice your happiness in order to do the right thing.