"Casablanca"

Casablanca, a movie about a good old love triangle, was an instant classic and all time great when it was released January 23, 1943. The movie really puts the saying "if you love someone then you will be able to let them go" to the test. The main character Rick really has to choose between what is the right thing to do and what he wants for himself.

In my own opinion, the movie was a great love story that had everything in it. It had Nazis, criminals, a baffling murder, a lost love and an unseen twist that made everyone gasp. I kind of figured that IIsa and Victor were in love, but who could have seen that they were married even when Rick and IIsa were in Paris. The ending is what was really predictable though. I knew that Rick wasn't going to let Victor stay in Casablanca while he and his wife went to America. It was a good excuse in the movie, but I was not going to buy it. I knew no man would take another man's wife and leave him probably to die, especially when it was so obvious that she loved her husband more then him. Right when she pulled the gun on Rick to get the letters, that’s when he knew that he had no chance with her and that she really did love her husband. He knew the only way that he and IIsa could be happy is if he let them go to America. Then and only then could he finally put to rest that nightmare of what happened to him at the train station.
Finally this movie was a great romantic classic that really shows that love will triumph over everything from war to money. Like the IMDB movie review says “it is a great romance, not only for being so supremely entertaining with its humor and realistic-though-exotic wartime excitement, but because it's not the least bit mushy.” So what can a person ever give a movie that has everything? How about three Oscars along with five other nominations, great reviews and a good reference from me also.