- “The Greatest Showman” is more than a compound musical treat but a masterpiece.
- Hugh Jackman’s character as P.T. Barnum draws the fluidity and the firm foundation of one’s thirst for success.
- The celebration of humanity greatly stands out in the movie.
“The Greatest Showman” is a biographical musical based on the life of Phineas Taylor Barnum or simply, P.T. Barnum. At the start of the film, it tells the story of the little Barnum traveling with his father, Philo, in rich people’s houses. They go to the home of the Halletts where he meets their daughter, Charity. However, Charity’s father snobbishly demands the little boy to stay away from her. This scene precipitates Barnum to strive hard in life to prove that he is worthy of the love of the old man’s daughter.
Meanwhile, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s “This is Me” stole the show as the Best Original Song at the Golden Globes. “The Greatest Showman” is also under the direction of Michael Gracey.
The movie is more than a compound musical treat but a masterpiece that would resonate every edges and corner of life’s unexplainable facts and cases. It urges the viewers to embrace the deepest and thickest part of acceptance within all faultless souls. The wonderful and expressive treatment of the movie authentic purpose showed empathy for the forethought. Moreover, aside from being a huge entertainment, it represents the understate dilemmas of the present time that made the movie socially relevant and progressive construction.
The movie tackles a broad spectrum of life and the unending chained turns of dreams. It touches the tiniest and softest thread of human’s appreciation and approval. The uphill of the film echoes the value of determination and perseverance in fulfilling dreams that were brought by the exhausted fantasies of childhood and innocence.
Hugh Jackman’s character as P.T. Barnum draws the fluidity and the firm foundation of one’s thirst soul for the sweetest tip of success. The justice of every scene and sequence of Barnum’s frames showing the great determination are highly commendable and intelligently executed. It was soused in perfection that made it more reachable from viewers’ perception and critics’ complex exploration.
The celebration of humanity greatly stands out in the movie as it tackles the gross presence of long-standing issue about racism and bullying. The movie helps us to fill the spaces brought by the doubts and unfair social constructs of society and its people. Equality delivered into the movie’s hard and hurtful truths, however, brightened the emotional release when it touched the delicate controversies of race and humility.
Keala Settle’s portrayal as the bearded lady Lettie Lutz resurrected the hope and the courage hiding in our deepest ego. She fearlessly abolished the phantom of sadness, judgment, fear and cowardliness into one spectacular scene that showcased the importance and essence of bringing the sympathized tale of social equality.
Despite the weight and complexity of the subject, the movie managed to put a light touch of romance between the characters of Zac Efron as Phillip Carlyle and Zendaya as the acrobat and trapeze artist, Anne Wheeler. Just like any other love story, Zac and Zendaya represented the generic knots of its own catharsis and slopes. The development of their characters’ attraction was impressively effectuated with the acceptance arrived in their pale consciousness.
“The Greatest Showman” tackles racism, inequality, acceptance, determination and perseverance. The must-watch movie musical also stars: Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, Loren Allred, Sam Humphries, Austyn Johnson, Cameron Seely, Paul Sparks, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Eric Anderson, Daniel Everidge, Shannon Holtzapffek, Luciano Acuna Jr., Danial Son, Yusaku Komori, Gayle Rankin, Fredric Lehne, Kathryn Meisle, Will Swenson among others.
Rating: 9.5/10
