Subj : Casablanca (1942)
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Arelor
Date : Fri Jan 07 2022 12:48:47

  Re: Casablanca (1942)
  By: Dumas Walker to ARELOR on Thu Jan 06 2022 05:10 pm

 > My all-time favorite movie.  My take on Ilsa is a little more forgiving
 > than yours, though.  She thought her husband was dead and found herself
 > alone in a war-torn country.  She later found out that her husband was not
 > dead.  There she made a decision that one might expect, but was not one
 > that she made Rick completely aware of.
 > 

Here is the thing: Ilsa could have been straight about the issue with Rick.
Instead, she made him wait for her in vain at the train station just as the
nazies rolled in, and her only justification was a note left to the piano
player, with a message which pretty much could have been summarized as "Fuck
you, Rick."

I think the most sane character in the whole film was Sam, because he is the
one who recognizes early on that Ilsa is bad luck for Rick.


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