[Maxion]

> If you’ve never seen this film, give it a shot.

The atmosphere in the film is quite special, you almost feel like it was made in modern times, just adjusted in post to be black and white.

[YouWhy]

A different way of putting the above is that Casablanca's aesthetic was so influential that it guided decades of subsequent work.

My 2¢: this could be a consequence of both the movie's strengths as much as of the trade-offs taken that did not overshadow the strengths. For example, the movie's wartime moral dichotomy is carefully offset with reminders about the limitations of moralism.