The Idea Of Love In Michael Curtiz's Casablanca

We can inference love to be a powerful thing. It can have complete dominant over your mental, emotional and physical aspects of your life. You do things you don’t necessarily ever think you’ll ever do, or even desire to do. It can drastically change who you are and maybe even have the power to change you into something you don’t desire to be. It’s as if you enter into a love war where you’re battling with yourself, your emotions. It’s an ongoing battle among two people who are in love, with unease pulling on one another with admire yet hatred. In the end, it’s a fair game simply being that all is fair in love and war. In a film called, “Casablanca” by Michael Curtiz, one of the main characters Rick Blaine, reflects the idea of how powerful love can be. The film is settled around December of 1941 during the coming of the Second World War. During this time period, many people are trying to flee Europe to the Americas. At the time, Lisbon was the port to get to the Americas. Casablanca being located in Africa, it was the way to get to Lisbon as long as you had an exit visa. Most of the film takes place in “Rick’s Café” which is located in Casablanca, being owned …show more content…
Rick begins to become who he really is the moment he decides to help a young couple win gambling money to obtain exit visas. However, desiring to be perceived a certain way and wanting Ilsa for himself, he fights with his emotions towards whether or not help Ilsa and her husband obtain the letters of transit. It was when Ilsa harshly yelling at Rick states, “With so much at stake, all you can think of is your own feelings” (Curitz) that Rick began to view things differently and change. The act of giving Ilsa and her husband the letters of transit, shows honorability. The act of honoring Ilsa’s marriage even though Rick in his heart desired and tremendously loved