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Analysis Of The Movie 'Casablanca'

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Casablanca is a great movie. It showed both the unwillingness of America to involve itself in World War II, and it 's eventual participation. This reluctance of the United States to participate in the war came from wanting to recover from both the Great Depression and World War I, people didn 't want the country to enter another war. Japan 's attack on Pearl Harbor, however, changed all of this. This event gave the United States a reason to join the war. I think it was clever too, how the film was set in December of 1941, which was the month the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

In this movie, Rick Blaine was the character that represented the United States. His neutrality on most issues throughout the movie describes the United States '

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