A fantastic musical

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2017)

The Greatest Showman is a celebrative film about P. T. Barnum's knack of showmanship and his relentless drive as an opportunist and a businessman that started with the presentation of the out-of-ordinary as the extraordinary to his establishment of the spectacular spectacles of the Big Top circus. Along the way, as a side line to the story he tackles and crosses the boundary of social and cultural snobbery with himself becoming victimized for a brief moment in his chase to social climbing. The film comes as an upbeat musical that never dwells too deeply into the sociology of class distinction and the acceptance of society's outcasts by the norm. Instead it brings together in my mind the best evocation of "Moulin Rouge" in terms of its music which is footstompingly good. The music is boisterous, melodic, assertive and full of life that makes you want to stand up and join the dancing chorus on screen. The other thing it evokes is cirque du soleil. This association is more personal because they both excites me with imagination and beyond of what an ordinary circus is about.