Casablanca (1942)

World has moved far away from World war .Its been sixty years.Humanity is a different word today as it was on a different shape yesterday.Love is different today,But Pain of Love is still the same .Love strucks hard with the hardest man also.More the pain in love, more emptiness in this world .Loss of love makes one feel isolated and gives the feeling of emptiness in and around you. Emptiness makes a human apathetic in what ever activities he had carried before. He lives in the own world. The human relationship, rituals and red tapism becomes big jest .Revolving around the memories makes a man tired and tiredness always gives frustration and frustration leads to loneliness.

Casablanca portrays a man Richard “Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) is one lonely, sardonic person living in his own world in Casablanca running a parlor (Recreation Club).If you ask me which is the unsurpassed English movie of all time Hands down I would say its Casablanca.Not for its status ,not for the performance but for the way its scripted with stunning outlook . In December 1941, Casablanca, exotic port on the Atlantic coast of North Africa is controlled by officially neutral, yet Nazi-collaborating French Vichy government. Thousands of refugees from war-torn Europe are stuck there on the way to Lisbon and safety of America, and ready to pay any price for precious exit visas. Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) married to Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) who fight against the Nazis enters Casablanca where Rick lives.The emotional trauma when Rick meets Ilsa who left him abruptly without explanation years before in Paris and returned to Laszlo takes you through out the movie .

The best words of any man comes when he feels nothing is left in him.The guy Rick is a quality of the highest pedigree. His only Job and pleasure in life is running his nightclub. He has got women in his life but “don’t love them hoes.”” As a bolt out of a clear sky “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine “ starts the words of pain from Rick .She is Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) . Words of pain had made this movie a legendary in terms of screenplay and direction.The best of it is that it speaks lot more than love ,it speaks on War,freedom of speech and of course friends ship .

The legendary status of the movie makes this a very tough movie to review.The sharp dialogues of this movie makes one take a astonishing look at the amazing script work .The Lines like “Here’s looking at you kid” and “This is the start of a beautiful friendship” never appeared in the original script. But the revised version of Casablanca had it .If you ask me which is the unsurpassed English movie of all time Hands down I would say its Casablanca.Not for it status ,not for the performance but for the way its scripted with stunning outlook .

Based on Everybody Comes to Rick's, a play written by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, the story links both love and war with Comedy and reality. Process of emotion bearing comes to full shape when Bergman meet Humphrey Bogart , whether the feeling in question is love or hate. Her portrayal of Ilsa is made to love both ,But handled well in the shape of impasse heart .The seconds when She requests “I do not know what’s right or wrong ,You have to think for both ,For all of us !”I was confused with those words, what she was and why she was back to Rick! I really took it in the way she was back to him for the Visa as a usual makes believe.

I had watched this movie more than once and I believe all who love this would have watched this legendary work more than once, and every time it looks so fresh and breathe taking in its presentation. One important thing of this movie is Ricks eyes Ilsa eyes meet every time they meet and those speaks most of the time addition to their memories of Paris. The movie can not be seen only with the facet screen play and Performances alone, The movie is equally carried by Victor Lazslo(Paul Henreid ), Captain Renault ( Claude Rains ) and many. Till the end I had not judged the character of Captain Renault .Music and locational sets are equally amazing with this, which does not make you feel that you are watching a movie of a bygone era.

Casablanca I would say is the paramount of Love in Celluloid .It took for me one week to think and apply my mind to write about this movie. Even now I can have some quotes having a boom effect in my mind “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine”.Every one feels the same.