The purity of black and white classics

Jasmin 2022-03-21 09:01:01

I want to watch "Casablanca" because I read this movie in a Chinese reading in my third year of high school. Reading the classic line "There are so many small towns and so many pubs in this world, she just walked into my room." At that time, the Chinese teacher said that after the college entrance examination, I have a chance to watch this movie.
At that time, I was carrying a to do list after the college entrance examination. And now I can't remember what items are on it.

And coming back against the cool night breeze in Beijing, the relaxed mood of the National Day holiday is about to come, reminds me of this movie.

At the beginning, I saw the introduction to the background of World War II and the translation of "Casablanca" into "The Bourbon of North Africa".
But it turns out that I think too much.

There are no spies, no tortures, no grievances and grievances from the previous generation, and even no signs of the passport being stolen (I always thought it would be a tragic love story for the passport snatching--.). Even the plot of the male protagonist drawing the gun at the end did not make me nervous, because the previous artistic conception was too harmonious and loving, and I felt that the ending must be harmonious and loving~ The

plot is actually not many branches, simple and clean, and the love between the male and female protagonists, It's so pure that it makes me feel incredible. The love that hurt Rick to his bones seemed nothing more than a Paris holiday romance similar to a Roman holiday. No pregnancy miscarriage, no junior, no terminal illness, no family disputes, no political entanglements.
Through the black and white lens, one can still feel the brilliant sunshine of Paris and the bright and stable mood.
And when the triangle appeared, there was no entanglement, no insults, and no plot. It's just a song "As time goes by", a drinking night, an elegant figure, a back figure with self-esteem gone, just a few long conversations.
Both men love her so deeply and are willing to abandon themselves for her happiness, and the sun shines in the shadows in their hearts.

The seemingly indifferent Rick helped the poor by deliberately losing money. The bartenders hugged and kissed him and invited him to drink coffee; the French people openly sang Marseille against the German national anthem; the sleek Lehman captain with a comical color At the last moment, he chose to protect the dignity of his country in a subtle and humorous way. In the so-called sinister political environment in the movie, what is presented to us is indeed a lot of small warmth.

Alas, I forgot that this is a black and white movie from the 1940s, and my taste has long been tuned to impetuousness by the so-called blockbuster now. It requires sensory stimulation and outrageous plots to get pleasure and the feeling of being alive.

It is in such jazz music, in simple light and shadow, in pure feelings, to return to tranquility. You can slowly appreciate Bao Jia's deep forehead lines and Bergman's beautiful and halo face.

Love, responsibility, nothing more.

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Casablanca quotes

  • Ilsa: Rick, I have to talk to you.

    Rick: [Rick is drunk] Uh-huh. I saved my first drink to have with you. Here.

    [passes her a drink]

    Ilsa: No. No, Rick, not tonight.

    Rick: *Especially* tonight.

    Ilsa: Please...

    [he pours a drink]

    Rick: Why did you have to come to Casablanca? There are other places.

    Ilsa: I wouldn't have come if I'd known that you were here. Believe me Rick, it's true I didn't know...

    Rick: It's funny about your voice, how it hasn't changed. I can still hear it. "Richard, dear, I'll go with you anyplace. We'll get on a train together and never stop - "

    Ilsa: Don't, Rick! I can understand how you feel.

    Rick: [scoffs] You understand how I feel. How long was it we had, honey?

    Ilsa: [on the verge of tears] I didn't count the days.

    Rick: Well, I did. Every one of 'em. Mostly I remember the last one. The wow finish. A guy standing on a station platform in the rain with a comical look in his face because his insides have been kicked out.

    Ilsa: Can I tell you a story, Rick?

    Rick: Has it got a wow finish?

    Ilsa: I don't know the finish yet.

    Rick: Well, go on. Tell it - maybe one will come to you as you go along.

    Ilsa: It's about a girl who had just come to Paris from her home in Oslo. At the house of some friends, she met a man about whom she'd heard her whole life. A very great and courageous man. He opened up for her a whole beautiful world full of knowledge and thoughts and ideals. Everything she knew or ever became was because of him. And she looked up to him and worshiped him... with a feeling she supposed was love.

    Rick: [bitterly] Yes, it's very pretty. I heard a story once - as a matter of fact, I've heard a lot of stories in my time. They went along with the sound of a tinny piano playing in the parlor downstairs. "Mister, I met a man once when I was a kid," it always began.

    [laughs]

    Rick: Well, I guess neither one of our stories is very funny. Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Lazlo, or were there others in between or... aren't you the kind that tells?

    [Ilsa tearfully and silently leaves. Rick's face falls in his hands sadly, knowing that he's said all the wrong things]

  • Captain Renault: [to Ilsa] I was informed that you were the most beautiful woman ever to visit Casablanca. That was a *gross* understatement.

    Ilsa: [genuinely pleased] You're very kind.