" . . . but I live among the swells . . . "

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2018)

" . . . and we don't pick up peanut shells," sings the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL guy to P.T. Barnum about 40 minutes into THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, the Fox Fake Musical Division's examination of American Class Warfare. But as Mr. Barnum most famously said (and as the residents of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania now are learning too well), "There's a sucker born every minute." Many movies have focused upon so-called "Freaks versus Geeks" conflicts in modern U.S. high schools (as frequently explored by Zac Efron--aka, the Greatest Showman, Jr., here--in the aforementioned TV series). However, GREATEST SHOWMAN explicates explosive epic battles between freaks and GREEKS more than 100 years ago (if you define fraternity brother types building their mansions to resemble Greek Temples filled with fake Greek sculptures as being "Greek"). As they still do Today, these Monied Frat Boys use the news media that they own and control to rile up We "the masses" by inventing Sex Police and other bogus, quasi-religious "social issues" to seduce some of Barnum's fellow "Riff Raff" into torching his theater. To quote P.T. again, "Suckers!"