The Greatest Showman is truly the GREATEST!

Rating: 10/10 (1 May 2018)

Let me start off by saying I saw The Greatest Showman three times in the theater because I just could not get enough. The emotion and passion that was put in this movie starting with the actors, to the songs, to the sheer relatability to the characters. I was in awe from start to finish, I laughed with the characters, cried with them and felt their pain. I cannot image a more empowering a movie than The Greatest Showman. This movie is relatable on so many levels. It highlights how being a dreamer and going for what you truly want can result in an amazing experience. Taking chances and taking big risks all paid off for P.T. Barnum in the end, but he was not without his trials and tribulations. His need to fit in and be one with those that he had grown up ending up almost costing him the loss of his family. Character like Lettie Lutz give us all the feels. Each character is an ode to the underdogs, the forgotten, the beaten down, and the shamed. They all come together as a big family, in support and love of each other. In a time when shaming people publicly was still socially acceptable, these group of misfits and outcasts stand to change the ideas of what is accepted. People with abnormalities, skin color differences and those with disabilities do not allow the words and actions of others to let it bring them down. Instead we are given a powerful performance empowering themselves and showing that they are who they are, and they will not stand to be thrown away or cast out anymore. The final group scene in the pub truly shows how far they have come and grown as a family. They are no longer ashamed.