Over time, I have learned not to associate music with the people in my life. Unpopular opinion, but music can be cruel. It interweaves itself with your memories, only to become a lifelong trigger, once that special person is gone from your life. Don’t believe me? Ask Ilsa and Rick, and they’ll tell you how time freezes for them, any time they hear “As time goes by.” Yet, when Ilsa meets Sam, Rick’s old friend and now the pianist at Rick’s cafe, for the first time after a whole year, she requests the very same song. “Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake,” she says, “Play it, Sam. Play as time goes by…”In this article, we’re analyzing how a simple song unites these two lovers who never got their happy ending. The Story Casablanca is a story of love and sacrifice set against the backdrop of the Second Great War. The narrative follows Richard ‘Rick’ Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who faces the biggest dilemma of his life when his long-lost lover, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), and her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), seek refuge and help from him to escape the Nazis in French Morocco. The film pits the heart against the brain in the face of a global crisis, such as the Great War, to explore universal yet complex themes of love, sacrifice, loyalty, and the inescapable influence of the past. A film that was written on the go, Casablanca is one of the finest examples of the art of...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 5 November