Examples Of Human Relationships In Casablanca

Casablanca

Complexity of human relationships is a primary theme of “ Casablanca”. Throughout the movie we are trying to figure out the relationship between the characters, a relationship we don't learn about until about half way into the movie is that the man Ilsa is traveling with is actually her husband, and had been her husband for a while. We can tell pretty early on that there is history between Rick and Ilsa from the moment they saw each other. We are led to find out they were together while she was in Paris and they fell in love with each other barely knowing one another. Rick offers to take her away from all the bad stuff that was going on around them, she agreed, she wanted to meet him at the station. She left a note that Sam had

You could tell that they at least had to have been friends because she asked sam to play a song he said he didn't know what she was talking about but he played the song Ilsa wanted to hear and as she asked him to sing it he repeated he didn't remember it so she hummed it for him and he began to sing it. As he played the song, Rick came out in a hurry slamming on the piano saying “ I thought I told you never to play that song”. The relationship between Ilsa and Sam is not well shown in the film of the movie, besides the fact that you can tell they knew each other. All we know about Sam is that he has been with Rick and is a real friend as he tries to keep Ilsa away from the same and denies playing him “As time goes by” because he is emotional and drunk. We later are shown a conversation between Rick and Ilsa about exit visas to get to America and he and her get into an argument and she openly admits that at the time in Paris she could not leave him because she had a husband. Rick eventually tells her he is not going to give her the visas and then her husband calls her away from the conversation. In the end he ended up giving Ilsa and Laszalo the exit visas even know that meant never seeing Ilsa

One of the really big ones you see almost as soon as the movie starts is that Ilsa has had an affair with Rick as her husband was in a concentration camp. Throughout the film Ilsa has led on Rick after she appears in Casablanca up until the point of telling him that the man she is traveling with is her husband, even after that she still shows up to his place after her husband leaves to talk to him. At this moment he and Rick get into a big fight and he says really hurtful things to her. It is also not fair to her husband to not know she had an affair with the man he is trying to get there visas to america from, the both of them kept sneaking around to talk about the reason he wasn't going to give them the visas. Rick wouldn't tell Laszalo the reason he wasn't going to give him the visas was because he had been seeing his wife in Paris. One of the biggest moral implications i saw in “Casablanca” was when we were slowly told that adjust married woman had talked to someone about getting her and her husbands exit visas and she ended up asking rick for help because she knew he had the other two exit visas, the only other way she was going to get them was to have an affair on her husband with a German shoulder and her and her husband both new about it but it was the only way she saw. After finding out Rick had two exit visas she begged him for his help telling him about the affair she would have to have because