an apropriate end to the love story???

If it had a happy ending, we would not remember the film like we do.It is because Rick and Ilsa go their separate ways the film is one of the best films ever made. Besides the war was on and Rick and Ilsa had things to do to help the fight. Remember that line that Ilsa's husband says right before he gets on the plane, " Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win."And what Rick said to Ilsa. I can't remeber the exact words but he implied that he had things that she couldn't be a part of. So I always thought that Rick was going to help the resistance.And it was made in 1941-1942.In those days the code wouldn't let a movie come out where a married woman leaves her husband for another man.

I still appreciated the film even though they didn't end up being together, Rick and Ilsa I mean. I tend to become a proponent for the "un-happy" kind of ending, maybe that's one of the reasons why I loved the film in spite of its unhappy conclusion. Rick still made the right decision. After all, Ilsa was already married, although she could make some steps toward getting separated from Victor to be with Rick. I admire Rick for the sacrifice he had to make for his own, to make good for the other people. It's one of the things that we rarely see from the films nowadays...

I should say it was a good ending. On whether or not i think Rick deserved Ilsa, i think the answer is quite clear with Rick's reply to Ilsa's question; "We'll always have Paris" anything less would've destroyed the movie.

It would not be right for Elsa to leave her husband for Rick. She was married and besides, had they remained in Casablanca, they would not have rallied their countrymen living in exile in the States. The only way, in those days, for Rick and her to be together was if her husband was killed, and then, according to the code then, the story would be sometime after the war was over so that she would not be suspected in her husband's demise.