After watching Casablanca. Summarized Goffman elements.

 Performance: Characters in films often perform during social interactions, hiding their true identities or emotions. For example, Rick appears to be cold and neutral, but is actually full of complex emotions on the inside. Other characters such as Ilsa Lund and Victor Laszlo are also maintaining their own images and goals.


Social Setting: The bar plays a key role in the entire film as a social setting. Here, various characters gather and engage in complex social interactions involving love, betrayal, espionage and other aspects.


Colleagues: In the bar, characters from different countries and backgrounds appeared. Although there were conflicts and differences between them, in this special environment, they temporarily became colleagues who faced difficulties together. Helping and supporting each other, we have experienced various events together.


Rick Blaine: Rick is the owner of a bar in Casablanca, and his character could be considered a "performer," taking on different roles depending on the situation he finds himself in.


Ilsa Lund: Ilsa is Rick's ex-lover who plays a complex role in the film and may be seen as a "player" who played an important role in Rick's life role, and was also influenced by him.


Victor Laszlo: Victor is an anti-fascist activist who may represent the "forum", which in Goffman's concept refers to a specific place in society, People interact here in specific capacities.


Philippe Stroud (Captain Louis Renault): He is a French police officer who interacts with many forces and often changes his position. He may represent the "guard". In Goffman's theory, guarding refers to the role in social interaction. It plays a role that emphasizes regulation, control and supervision.

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