In Reply to: Casablanca:What makes it great? posted by Scott Woebcke on November 22, 2009 at 18:53:21:
...and shared history between Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, the stuff that is unsaid yet implied and silences thick with feeling and longing - choices made, and finally accepted.
What's the addage: "having loved and lost rather than having never loved at all"?
Then there is the maturity of adults to let go rather than to take what seems expedient for the moment.
What weirded me out at the end was the implied homosexual relationship between Rick and the Commissioner - or am I reading way too much into "a beautiful friendship"??
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- RE: Casablanca:What makes it great? For me it's the tension... - mpathus 20:56:46 11/22/09 (17)
- " or am I reading way too much into "a beautiful friendship"??" - Wendell Narrod 11:00:13 11/23/09 (8)
- RE: " or am I reading way too much into "a beautiful friendship"??" - mpathus 11:43:43 11/23/09 (3)
- RE: " or am I reading way too much into "a beautiful friendship"??" - geoffkait 04:32:32 11/24/09 (2)
- Just the opposite - Larry I 12:00:23 11/30/09 (0)
- "Cynical realists", I think I get your drift... - mpathus 17:30:31 11/24/09 (0)
- Seen it 50 times? - mkuller 11:33:19 11/23/09 (3)
- If you can't watch a film at least... - Harmonia 12:56:31 11/24/09 (1)
- Sorry I disagree... - mkuller 13:06:57 11/24/09 (0)
- RE: Seen it 50 times? - Wendell Narrod 11:51:21 11/23/09 (0)
- RE: ?. - patrickU 05:43:06 11/23/09 (3)
- RE: ?. - mpathus 11:46:37 11/23/09 (2)
- Well said .... - Bhasi 02:31:11 11/23/09 (3)
- I've never found the ... - Harmonia 19:16:04 11/23/09 (0)
- RE: Well said .... - patrickU 05:43:52 11/23/09 (1)
- Ah, the power of repression! LoL! nt - Bhasi 07:27:51 11/23/09 (0)