Casablanca

If you wanna see how love hurts , you have to see this movie, specially the sequence where a Drunk Humphrey Bogart pleads Sam(Dooley wilson) to sing " as time goes by".

The movie is considered one of the greatest all time and one of the best tragic love stories. Starring Humphrey Bogart , Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid in major roles and directed by Michael Curtiz, is a must watch for it's story , amazing performance and some really good punch lines like " Heres looking at you kid" , "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" , "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." " we will always have Paris" and "Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."

The story is set in Casablanca (a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean, which is a gateway to America from Europe.) Rick BLaine(Humphrey Bogart) runs a posh nightclub in a city populated by people who illegally want to go to US. His place not only attracts them but also the stern cops( on lookout for such people, as well as people who want to cash-in on this oppertunity.

Rick somehow gets a "letter of transit" from a petty criminal that allows the bearer to travel freely around German-controlled Europe and to neutral Portugal, and from there to the United States. Though rick claims a neutral positon with regards to worldly affairs, he has a grey past which he soen't want to haunt him.

Twist in the tale , enters pretty Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), with her husband Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) to purchase the letters. Laszlo is a renowned Czech Resistance leader on the run from the Nazis. The couple need the letters in order to be able to leave Casablanca for America, where Laszlo can continue his work. German Major Strasser (Conrad Veidt) arrives to ensure that Laszlo does not escape.

Rick refuses to hand over the letter to them without giving them a reason. Upon being asked repeatedlt he says lazlo to "ask his wife". Ilsa comes back in the night gives her reasons for deserting him and begs for the letter. But, she finds herself totally in love with him again and swears never to leave him. They then decide that Rick would let Lazlo have the Letter of transit while Ilsa will stay back with him.

The climax is amazing where Rick sacrifices his love and lets them both go.

Amazing movie , Gracious and a little grey at times.

I know most of you must have watched it alre3ady and those of who , who haven't got the chance get the DVD from your nearest shop, you won,t repent it , thats my word.

P.S I personally like the way Humphrey Bogart drags heavilly on his cigettes and the song " as time goes by" …. my rating 9.5/10