I chose this scene to blog about because I found that it fully encompassed the themes of refugees and movement within the film of Casablanca. With the help of narration, this clip shows the journey many Jewish Europeans had to take in hopes of fleeing Nazi-occupied countries they had previously called home. The background music and tone of the narrator expresses a sense of seriousness and urgency. I found the use of the map very interesting, especially how they showed the very path that many of the refugees fleeing Europe took. The director used these technical film elements to present themes of both risk and hope. I was completely unaware that Northern Africa became a place of transit for Jewish refugees during World War 2 so it was interesting new perspective to gain. The theory of liminality came to mind when watching this film because the refugees have traveled from far and wide, no longer in their country of origin, to Casablanca. Casablanca is portrayed as this waiting station, a purgatory if you will, in which people are waiting to receive the necessary paperwork to flee to the Americas. The narrator foreshadows this and the actual time in which people ended up waiting there in the clip I chose when he said “The others would wait in Casablanca where they would wait, and wait, and wait….”.