Casablanca Propaganda

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Casablanca is a film form 1942 so it was a war propaganda film, to make the people of america more patriotic.the most important theme in Casablanca is that everyone is trying to escape. A movie that was repeated over and over again was that he loved her and she love him, but she sacrificed love for a higher purpose. Rick try's to be neutral but can't. because he was never neutral he had always done stuff to help the allies.

Casablanca is a tale of two songs. The first song, "La Marseillaise," is the French national anthem, written during the era of the French Revolution about fighting for freedom from political repression. In Casablanca, it represents a free France, and, by extension, the Allied side in World War II. the second is As Time

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