Love Post

Morrisey's "Let Me Kiss You"
The song's tone is depressing because it is about someone who has decided that they can not find real love. So, they resort to being with people that they do not really care about. The person is in meaningless relationships, so to make it easier on them they pretend they are with someone else. The lyrics "so close your eyes and let me kiss you.." do not really mean just so they do not see the person they are kissing, but to completely imagine that they are with another person that they can not really even find. The song tells of someone who thinks they will never find meaningful love because they say they have searched, and the fact that it tells of the same situation of having to imagine themselves with another and saying at the end of the song that their "heart is open to you" says they will continue the same pattern.

Casablanca
The part of the movie we saw shows what seems to be a real form of love between the two characters. The couple enjoys being with each other many different places and times and seem to not worry. They also kiss each other a lot which also leads audiences to think they are really in love. The contrast to all the love they seem to share is the war going on around them and that the man must leave because he is wanted by authorities. The woman says that she wants to go with him when he leaves in the morning, although she seems to have some hesitation. The woman also tells the man that she does not want him to meet her at her place, but instead in the train station; this also foreshadows that something may go wrong in the couple's plan to run away together.