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While I've grown to enjoy "Casablanca", I never saw the fascination with it. I've never been a fan of Humphrey Bogart's acting style and the dude looked 60 all his life even when playing a supposedly young guy. Ingrid Bergman is hotter than flame but in most of the movie she just looked like she was about to cry. Stylistically it doesn't do anything groundbreaking or amazing like "Citizen Kane". But then I remembered, we're seeing it through the distance of time. The film was made in 1942 and came out in January 1943. It was a movie ABOUT the war that was made and released DURING the war, when we didn't even know the outcome yet. Apparently (I think I read somewhere) in the nightclub scene where they out-sing the Germans a lot of those actors were people who really DID have to flee the Nazis. So maybe it's more about when it was made.
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