Rick's Problem.

Ilsa’s line ‘We’ll always have Paris’ is seen as one of the most romantic lines of cinematic history (somebody even said it to me once!) I don’t think it’s romantic at all; I think it’s just plain silly.

What use is Paris? It’s only a memory, a shadow of something that no longer exists, a two dimensional thing without substance or prospects. Casablanca exists; Paris doesn’t. Saying ‘We’ll always have Paris’ is like giving a starving man the plate off which he ate his last meal three weeks ago and expecting him to stop feeling hungry. It’s hardly the solution to Rick’s problem, is it? It’s absurd.