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Yoonji Reem Film As Literature 11G 08/31/2009

Finding Softness of love from Hardness, “Casablanca”

Ranked as one of the classics of all time, the film “Casablanca” manages to blend in the un-matching topic and background, love and World War II, and succeeds to create a new sense of beautiful emotional impact. With its unique sense of the plot line, the film evokes full spring of emotions from the audiences that lasts long even after the movie is over. During WWII, when Casablanca was a place for all the refugees to come, Rick Blaine, who fought in the war for good side, settles in Casablanca, Morroco and owns a cafe. He seems like a cold-heart men, but when he was back in Parris, he had an beautiful and unforgettable affair with his lover, Ilsa Lund.

However, unfortunately Ilsa Lund leaves Rick Blaine because she realizes that her husband, who she thought was dead already, was actually alive but sick. After the hurtful parting,Rick and his personal singer Sam carries on a business in Casablanca where a lot of political figures of France and German Nazis visit. Mean while, Ilsa Lund visits Casablanca with her husband, who is the leader of underground community, to get a “letter of transfer” in order to fly to America. One day, Ilsa Lund visits the cafe with her husband Victor Laszlo and by chance, meets Rick Blaine. Ilsa Lund tries to explain all the misunderstandings and ask help for Rick to get the letter, but the conflict grows.

The best part about this movie is that even after the film is over, your emotions and impression still remains for a long time. Rick Blaine’s understanding mind and his love towards Ilsa Lund makes the audience feel connected to the situations that characters face. The small parts such as where Rick and Blaine is in love in Paris and when they look at each other’s faces as if they have nothing else than each other, lets the audiences to place themselves in to the situation and feel the same emotions that the characters in the movie feel.

Not only the emotion providing acts and scenes of the movie, the story line of the film it self adds on to the positive factor of the movie. The fact that the characters love each other in such harsh and troublesome background makes the audience feel the depth of their love twice as much as seeing love that happens in the ordinary background. The story is a kind of plot that the watchers once in a while dream about, but at the same time not too apart from the reality.

To be honest, I couldn’t find any flaws or the parts I dislike in the movie. Usually, most of the romance movies tend to focus on only one thing, either on providing the audience a good, impressive plot line or making them feel emotional after watching the movie. However, the movie “Casablanca” is a kind of romance movie that includes a right balance of emotion evoking scenes and a good story that has a twist in the end. Even though I tried to come up with a flaw of a movie, I couldn’t find any.

I always thought it was hard for the characters other than main characters could provide a great impact to the viewers in the movie. However, this movie changed my mind. Not only the romance that occurred between Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund gave me emotional impact, but the sub characters such as Victor Laszlo and Captain Renault gave me another impact through out the movie. It is interesting to see how the movie breaks down the set perception towards the sub characters but instead bring up a new image of them.

This movie is the film that really brought the charm and attractiveness of both Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. It showed the manly but warm side of Humphrey Bogart as an actor, and the feminine but elegant side of Ingrid Bergman as an actress. Both characters seemed like they were really in love with each other, and they didn’t try too hard to tell audience that they are lovers. In some movies, the actors seem unnatural or over the top, but Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman made the movie more natural and impressive.

With out a doubt, because of the unique story and emotional acting of great actors, the movie “Casablanca” is worthy of being depicted as a classic movie. The film allows the audience to go through the emotional stages that the characters go through in the movie. The audience cry, laugh and sometimes feel love with the characters. By watching at how two lovers can love each other in such a tough environment, you feel the softness and sweetness of emotions.

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