Subj : Casablanca (1942)
To   : ARELOR
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sat Jan 08 2022 09:52:00

SPOILERS!!!

> 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."

That is one part of the movie I have never been sure of.  I have always
taken those scenes, and things said later, to mean she didn't find out that
Victor was alive until after she and Rick made their plans to leave Paris.
Something was eating at her at the cafe before, but I wondered if that was
more a reluctance to leave Paris and Europe just in case her husband was
still alive.

> 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.

Yes, I was always disappointed that Rick left Sam behind as part of the
terms of sale of the Cafe American and that he didn't go with him and
Reynard at the end.  He has kept Rick out of trouble before, and I would
suspect probably more than was made explicit during the movie.


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