Casablanca 1942.

I found myself very confused while watching Casablanca. I really had no idea what was going on, especially at the end.
When the movie started I could follow it but the more characters that were introduced, the more confused I became. From what I got out of the beginning , Ugarte was a necessary character in helping people get their exit visas and letters of transit but he disappeared so quickly that his character was never fully developed. As the movie continued I couldn't seem to figure out Humphrey Bogart’s character, Rick Blaine. He seemed like just a bar owner who wouldn’t help anybody for any reason. I was glad to see that he was actually sentimental and willing to help the people that really needed it like the young woman at the bar who was going to sleep with the Captain to get an exit visa. Seeing Bogart playing a sentimental character who was in love and still loved was a little strange because the last movie I viewed that had him in it, he played a character that was the opposite during most of the movie; the hard boiled detective, Sam Spade.
The ending was what really made me think the most out of the whole movie. It seemed that at first Rick was going to leave with Ilsa and not let her see her husband again. I was wrong when Rick went to the police station and told Captain Renault that he was planning on leaving with Ilsa and he had this plan to get Mr. Laszlo arrested because that’s what the police wanted and it was the perfect getaway with Ilsa. Once again, I was proven wrong when Rick pulled the gun on Captain Renault then in turn letting Mr. and Mrs. Laszlo escape. At this point, I think the movie is over and Rick is going to the concentration camp and that’s it. For the last time, wrong. Renault and Blaine end up being partners against the Nazis, planning to escape, and forming a friendship with the last line being “I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.”