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I am not a big fan of Musicals, but when these movies have a big/famous cast, I do consider watching these with fond interest. And more often than not, these films don’t disappoint me.

This movie is also one such piece of art that doesn’t fail me. It was worth my time and I felt like analyzing it and talking about it. Unless Musicals are a big turn off for you, this movie is really entertaining and I highly recommend it.

As any musical would, The Greatest Showman starts with a beautiful song. Our lead Hugh Jackman, who is portraying P. T. Barnum, is performing with the rest of the cast and as the song goes on, we see that our lead is left singing all alone with no audience.

At this point, we are taken back in time to see the struggle of Phineas Taylor Barnum, as a young boy, and his father the tailor.

We see how he first meets the love of his life. She is the daughter of a wealthy man and he is but a son of an ordinary tailor. As it is, the plot turns out to be another take on the classic Romeo-Juliet story.

This plot doesn’t last long as we eventually are greeted with the twist, Romeo and Juliet get together. But that’s just the start of the story. Our plot is much bigger than this romance.

Mr. Barnum wants to be wealthy enough to stand against our Juliet’s father who had insulted him and his father when he was young. With a head full of ideas and enthusiasm, after facing some mishaps on the way, he gets the idea of starting a Circus.

The movie shows us how Phineas, gets “Unique” people together and achieves his dreams.

But yet again, that is not what our story is, of achieving dreams.

The story moves forward to the point where our hero doesn’t know where to stop. He flies high up in the sky, just to eventually fall down to the earth.

That’s when we are taught about a very important thing in life, humility.