Casablanca Themes

The characters in Casablanca might as well start up their own Mutual Admiration Society. Because everyone is going around admiring everyone else. Even if their personal philosophies or political af...

Casablanca isn't just about love—it embodies it. Think of any aspect of a romance you could possibly hope to see in a movie. Requited love. Unrequited love. Budding romance. Loyalty to one's husb...

No story can be a great love story unless there's some conflict. Two people who meet, fall in love and live happily ever after without ever even arguing whose turn it is to do the dishes is just to...

No scene takes place on a battlefield. No one's head gets blown off. There isn't a man riding by on a horse warning everyone that the British are coming (which would have been weird anyway). But Ca...

Without sacrifice, we have no ending to this movie. For about an hour and a half, everyone except Laszlo and maybe Annina is looking out only for himself or herself, and then in about two minutes,...

Keep in mind that this movie came out during World War II. A totalitarian regime looking for world domination (not an exaggeration, btw) was threatening much of the Western hemisphere. Nothing enco...