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Trust Weighted
Perfect
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73
Trust Points
Wick's Review
Summary -
Perfect
5.0
The best movie ever is still fresh, funny, romantic and captivating after all these decades. Try it as a date movie, perfect for him and for her. After all, “we’ll always have Paris.”
Casablanca remains important because it transcendently dealt with life-and-death political challenges, namely how individuals could respond to Nazi Germany’s world-historic evil. It did that incisively and fearlessly – right in the middle of World War II.
Acting -
Really Great
4.5
Bogie, in one of his inimitable roles, surrounded here by the never lovelier or more heartbreaking Ingrid Bergman, and a rogues gallery of great character actors: Greenstreet, Lorre, et. al.
Male Stars -
Perfect
5.0
Female Stars -
Really Great
4.5
Female Costars -
Really Great
4.5
Male Costars -
Perfect
5.0
Film -
Perfect
5.0
Direction -
Perfect
5.0
Dialogue -
Perfect
5.0
Not a bad line in the entire picture, and too many great ones to quote here.
* "Here's looking at you kid."
* "Life is cheap in Casablanca."
* "I came for the waters." "Waters? We're in the desert. "I was misinformed."
* "I remember everything. The Nazis wore gray, you wore blue."
* "Round up the usual suspects."
* "We'll always have Paris."
And on and on and on...
Music -
Perfect
5.0
_La Marseillaise_ (the French national anthem) had true political import in Casablanca.
And of course _As Time Goes By,_ "if you can play it for her you can play it for me..." (He never does say "Play it again Sam," but who's counting.)
Visuals -
Perfect
5.0
Extremely well done for 1940s Hollywood.
Edge -
Tame
1.5
Sex
Innocent
1.5
Violence
Fierce
1.6
Rudeness
Polite
1.4
Reality -
Glib
1.1
Circumstantial -
Glib
1.3
Biological -
Natural
1.0
Physical -
Natural
1.0
