Casablanca

Casablanca

While watching Casablanca and trying to relate it to the chapters, I looked through and decided to focus on the characters and relate them to my life. While watching this film, I picked out one main character: Rick Blaine, owner of Rick’s Café American I believe it is called. From what I have comprehended from this move, is that he starts the movie as a prick and shows no respect to everyone. He also thinks that everyone is wrong and it’s his way or the highway pretty much. I picked this character because he reminds me of a friend I met here at the University of Mary.

This friend’s personality seemed to come out like he thinks he is better then everyone. But you got to learn about people because he could just have a sense of humor like that, or it could have been from past experiences. For my friend, he just has a sense of humor, but for Rick Blaine, it is from his past experiences. As you can see from one the flashbacks while he was in Paris, when he was a child he was called Richard. But when IIsa stood him up at the train station, it altered his life and he suffered from depression.

But at the end of the film I saw that  he was not cold hearted and mean, he was simply broken hearted from what had happened. Kind of like the “A Christmas Carol.” As I learned from the movie, there are reasons why people act the way they do. I learned to try to evaluate the theme. From the chapter, it is easier to watch movies that I usually do not like to watch. Some things that help is not have prejudice because the movie was old, and also watch the movie from beging to end. Some movies make it that the beginning of the movie is less intense to make it a good ending. Overall I thought it was a good movie with the help from the book.