Casablanca is not only a place name, but also a belief

Sylvan 2022-03-22 09:01:01

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This movie seems to have only a simple plot, how to send away a former lover. Many people may think that this is a story about leaving the original partner to find a new partner and then returning to the original partner. Xinhuan helped them put a green hat on themselves. But in my eyes this is not, it is a bizarre love story; it is not a love story about betrayal and vanity, but a love story about nostalgia, a love story that sees through love.

The title of this film, "Casablanca", may be just a place name, but as the title says, it is still a belief, an attitude, and an era. In ordinary movies, if it is based on a place name or a person's name, then things will happen based on that person or place name. For example, the name "Lincoln" tells some experiences of President Lincoln. For example, the name "Chongqing Forest" tells two emotional stories surrounding this place. But "Casablanca" reverses these two consciousnesses. It is a character's experience in Casablanca. There is another high-end product called "The Godfather" that can subvert this meaning like this and shoot it perfectly. It is about some experiences surrounding the Godfather. Although the topic is simple, there is a man named Rick in this place. His arrival has brought a few loves, a few faiths, a few changes, and a few hopes. Therefore, the topic of Casablanca is not only a place name, but also a name of values.

Some people think that American dramas, like novels, are all about personal heroism. Yes, Casablanca is also personal heroism, but several people are heroism. There are Rick’s, there are sheriffs, there are Nazis, and there are secret parties. But every individual heroism is human, so behind it is human nature. In this movie, human nature is to survive by unscrupulous means.

The biggest difference between good Chinese movies and Hollywood movies is also the difference in values. China is a social value, and Hollywood is a personal value. China believes that a belief can promote social development, while the United States believes that everyone has their own values ​​to maintain the foundation of society, good spread, bad elimination. This film explains this American thinking very clearly. From the time when Rick was a sunny young man, because he was betrayed, he learned to do things for a tooth for a tooth, and do things overbearing. This is a strong value. The Nazi values ​​are to use all means to make themselves profitable. This kind of values ​​cannot work, so they are eliminated and their holders are killed.

If you regard this movie as an argumentative essay, from the perspective of love, its topic is betrayal but not betrayal. Is love worthy of unswerving protection or forgetting with a wave of both hands. From the perspective of war, its thesis is that the benefits obtained should never be taken by any means or should be obtained by preserving humanity. The method of argument for these arguments is Rick, the man who fascinates all women. His appearance, as mentioned above, brought some changes and hopes. In the beginning, the sheriff was a flatterer who saw the more powerful people say what he said. In the end, he saw that Rick sacrificed his life to help the woman and her husband that he was obsessed with. At that time, Rick showed the advantages of human nature, and brought the hope of a world-the light of human nature-to give up the ego to the greater ego. It also changed the dark soul dominated by the war for the sheriff. So they got their own interests, Rick helped his loved ones, and the sheriff got real freedom. Therefore, to gain benefits, you need to preserve your humanity. Don't get the results that are robbed, just like the British and French coalition forces burned the Old Summer Palace. Rick also brought a few loves from the changes he brought, one of which was his own. Rick released his pigeon because his girlfriend betrayed him. He thought she had hurt him and abandoned himself since then. But because most good movies have a word "encounter" that makes them meet again. At the very beginning, Rick was completely disappointed in her, but at the end the explanation let him know that it is not necessarily the bad guys who cheated, but maybe just the people oppressed by society. He began to fall in love with her again, and she never gave up missing him, a secret "love" was brought. So love that is betrayal but not betrayal is worthy of unswerving protection.

I think the most interesting thing about this movie is the two passes. Why are they not two? Obviously, this is a coincidence that the movie will use. The two passes appeared in no more than 2 minutes, but they were the most important clue and the most important symbol in the world, a symbol of hope. Why do you say that, you see, these two passes have brought a gorgeous story, the return of love, the victory of justice, of course this is just the "what" of the pass. And what it did, the significance is far-reaching, it makes the impossible escape possible; witnessed the great love in history, from the hellish sadness to the imprint in the heart, it is indelible. Pass is a kind of hope, a kind of symbol, and the meaning of communication certificate is nothing is impossible.

If the best movie named "Shawshank's Redemption" brings us hope to bring people freedom, then "Casablanca" is the same. "Casablanca" also allows people to understand the writing of justice, the understanding of love, the premise of success, and a principle: evil does not suppress the right

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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.