Michael Curtiz’s showstopping noir film, titled Casablanca (1992), is set during the second world war and is an exhilarating tale of love and division. The film follows ex-partners Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Lisa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) as they work together alongside Lisa’s husband, encountering old romantic feelings flooding back. Regarding the significance of the film and its’ setting of WWII. I was unaware of the politics behind the film, I looked at two articles regarding the relation to this. The first article I read analysed how the film was Pre-Nazi and was not yet aware of the damage to be done by them. Then, the second article I read discussed how the production company, Warner Brothers, had deleted the depictions and ties to Nazi Germany within the film as their first release of the film was blatantly Anti-Nazi.
The performance of heartache and romance showed between Rick and Lisa is complete and utterly enthralling. The characters’ struggle to re-listen to the song As Time Goes By by Herman Hupfeld captures an essence of love and pain that is often unspoken. The sense of sound/music carrying memories of nostalgia belonging to specific periods. An unusual form of heartbreak but one I cannot look past.
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