Review of The Greatest Showman (2017) by Micarocks101 — 25 Dec 2017

I just saw The Greatest Showman and just.

It was so, so amazingly wonderful. Ignore the other critics telling you it isn’t “historically accurate”. Unfortunately, these are the people that go to a film made with love and passion and leaveI just saw The Greatest Showman and just.

It was so, so amazingly wonderful.

Ignore the other critics telling you it isn’t “historically accurate”. Unfortunately, these are the people that go to a film made with love and passion and leave with a heaviness in their heart.

There is no denying P.T. Barnum said such things as “another sucker is born every minute”. There is no denying that he was a swindler and a con man.

Yet I ask how petty one must be to disregard a movie made with a love adamant in every frame, made for the love of telling a whimsical story, made to bring those who feel out of place together in a profound unity, simply because it is not historically accurate?

The Greatest Showman is a film celebrating the strength and whimsy of humanity. It is a film made to show people with scars and that they are proud of such scars. In every single frame there is a love and passion and dedication that shines through that I have not seen in so many years.

Please, I beg you to go see this movie. Because a movie is not historically accurate should not define what it is and make is message of vivid colors and wonderful humanity invalid. Go see this movie. I promise, you will leave with a smile, as I did.