Cast: Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya

Direction: Michael Gracey

Producer: Laurence Mark, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping

Writer: Jenny Bicks

Genre: Biography/Drama/Musical

Duration:105 Min

The Greatest Showman was based on the life of the circus curator, Phineas Taylor Barnum’s, and basically a freak show founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus according to the American’s in 1800s.

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There’s a lot to fall in love with this film, right from the beginning, the way you’ve been welcomed by “The Greatest Show”. The song is everything about how freak show by P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) enthralled everyone in America back in those days. It goes something like this, “Where it's covered in all the coloured lights, Where the runaways are running the night, Impossible comes true, it's taking over you”. Well, yes the greatest show had everyone who was an outcast.

The Greatest Showman is a mixture of music and dance, confusion and emotions and the rise back from ashes story. Though the plot remains basic. But there’s so much that the movie has to offer you. The amazing songs, the astounding cast!

Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum is really a delight to watch. Zac Efron as usual charming as he plays Philip Carlyle, the high society businessman. Zendaya as Anne Wheeler was graceful and Michelle Williams as Charity who is Barnum’s wife is shown understated. And who after watching this film would say that it was Michael Gracey’s directorial debut?

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The song “This is Me” was like the magnum opus of The Greatest Showman. Lettie Lutz gusts into this song when Mr. Barnum stops them from attending one of the fancy high societal fancy party of Jenny Lind (Rebecca Ferguson), the famous singer. Which was blow-back for the entire crew as they thought that Mr. Barnum adored them. That’s when they realize, there’s a difference between being a stellar performer and being accepted. There’s a moment where Carlyle (Zac Efron) holds hands with Anne (Zendaya) but as soon as his parents look at him he takes his hand away.

But the truth is that ‘The Greatest Showman’, P.T. Barnum had created something that people wanted to see and wanted to know what is it, but couldn’t because the society would not accept them for that. Barnum knew what he was after. I mean isn’t it human trait our sight lingers to something or someone who is beautiful or who are deformed. Obviously, it’s creepy and makes people uncomfortable. And once your moral heart holds you up, you’d shout yourself. And Barnum put all these oddities together and put up a show. And P.T. Barnum made the profit of their sheer oddness.

General Tomb Thumb, the Bearded Lady, and the Siamese Twins were actually all a part of the real Barnum’s troupe. P.T. Barnum made a fortune by putting in a museum or a show allowing people to look freely at what they do would normally loom away from. Hard judge and hard feel, was P.T. Barnum who gave them the life living worth for or it was all to earn a buck? Like Lettie Lutz (Bearded Lady) said in the movie.

 All I can say is that the performers at Barnum’s circus misunderstood the audience’s shout and applaud for love!