When America sees a worldly crisis, it births a divisive pop-culture love triangle. For the 2008 financial crisis, The Hunger Games took the shelves. During the U.S.-led Iraq invasion in 2003, Twilight was drafted. And, in 1942, when the Allies made crucial World War II victories, Casablanca hit theatres. Set in its namesake French colonial outpost during WWII, Ilsa must choose between her resistance leader husband, Laszlo, and her old fiery love, Rick. The concluding film to our most recently argued love triangle in The Summer I Turned Pretty (Conrad, Belly, and Jeremiah) isn’t coming this year, so this golden oldie will have to do. – Flora Belle Farr
