Acceptance In Society and Stunning Scenes

Rating: 9/10 (29 May 2020)

This film made me emotional - it takes place in the Victorian times in America and England. At the beginning there is a boy at a wealthy girl's home where his father is trying to make earnings.
The boy makes the girl laugh while she is being given lessons on drinking from a teacup. She sputters and her father scolds her and the boy comes to her rescue, explaining he made her laugh which got him a slap from him. The girl is wearing a beautiful dress and the dad tells her to come with him away from the boy like as if he owns her...
The father tells the boy to stay away from his daughter. The boy watches the girl ride away to her new school tearfully and continues to keep in touch. The boy's father passes away and the boy is left by himself with no shelter and basic necessities. He has to steal to survive and a nice woman gives him an apple. When the boy grows up he goes back to see the girl he fell in love with and this is where we see the back of a woman and her beautiful blonde hair at the window. He goes to pick her up and they leave. The girl's father tells him she will come back after finding out life in poverty.
The new couple is shown happily discovering the city and kissing. These are beautiful scenes with the couple laying a cloth out and sitting to watch the sky at the window. They run around the city completely in love and then the next scene shows the man wrapping his arms around his pregnant wife.
We see they live very high up and there are white sheets where the man opens to find his wife in the song they sing. There are so many beautiful songs with gorgeous backgrounds and dancing.
High up at their home, the father comes home after discovering he has no job because the company went bankrupt because of ships sinking. It is his daughter's birthday and she asks him what he got her. He plays with the shadows and lights on the curtains. He has two daughters - very cute and pretty and I love the dresses they wear.
He gets a loan from the bank using a paper from his company. He buys a museum filled with replicas of famous figures. His daughters at night in their bed laying side by side together tells their dad they think should focus on liveliness for his show, not dead things.
The father hires "freaks" - those with unusual or interesting traits. This includes minorities which include black and asian people.
It is a success but there are protestors who dislike the circus. The group gets invited to Buckingham Palace to perform for Queen Victoria and this is where he meets an elegantly dressed opera singer, Miss. Lind. She sings like an angel. He does not invite the "freaks" to the after party with the drinks and mingling.
He decides to go on tour with Ms. Lind and one day Ms. Lind looks at the man seductively and he knows she is trying to seduce him. He states he should go back home to the dismay of Lind and she tells him she will quit. She is hurt he does not care about her. At the end of her performance that day she kisses the man and this is later shown in newspapers.
Zac Efron and Zendaya go to a theatre where they meet his parents. His father asks him how he could be associated with the help, referring to those of colour. Zendaya goes out the door, upset.
Our ringleader is going home when he sees his wife about to leave because of what she saw in the papers. She is going back to her parents' home.
He realizes he is so into his work and not caring about those around him. He changes his actions and heart.
He meets up with the performers and decides that New York real estate is a bad investment. He decides to buy a portion of land and to use a tent. We watch the ringleader hand over the position to Zac where he tells Zac he will be spending time with his girls. Zac performs with Zendaya. Zendaya has such a beautiful body in this film. The wistful looks in this film from all the actors were done well and emotional.