Casablanca

As I have heard from many people that this movie is an all time classic.  When I first started to watch the movie it was hard for me to get into this movie, mainly because I was thinking this movie is way to old and in black and white.  Which with the movie being in black and white I don't know why it bothered me, because I like black and white picture more then colored ones.  Anyway back to the movie Casablanca, this movie really is a classic, it pulled me in, in a way I never expected.

I thought I had this movie figured out as to the way it was going to end, and everything in between that would happen.  I love the way they started the movie to make it seem like it was about war and mobs, but instead it lead into a love story of two people that found their way back to each other just by mistake. The way they made Humphrey Bogart seem like he was a bad person and into bad things, he turned out to be the man, the good people could count on.  He was for the people who were trying to do good and not helping the bad ones along the way.

Ingrid Bergman was definitely a beautiful women, unsure of her desires at the time.  She did decide she wanted to stay, with the man (Rick) she fell in love with in Paris, while her husband (Victor) was in a concentration camp.

In the end Rick chose to give Ilsa and Victor the passes they needed to get to the U.S., so Victor could continue his work, in helping others in the concentration camps.  Rick knew deep down that he had to let his lover Ilsa go or he and she would eventually end up regretting everything they had done to stay together.

So like I said above, I thought I had this movie totally figured out, by my surprise there was a twist in the end that I never expected, with Rick sending Ilsa with Victor to the states, to me that showed great character in the way they produced this movie, and by showing us that not all things are always as they seem.