The Great Showman is a film of the musical genre released in December 2017, the first work of the new director Michael Gracey, this film is suitable for all pubic and arrives at the movie theaters by 20th Century Fox. Set in the 19th century it is the biography of PT Barnum, creator of the Barnum Circus and founder of the most famous and oldest circus in the United States, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

It is the story of P. T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) the son of a tailor who after the death of his father must grow up in the streets of New York, despite hunger and hardship believes in himself, in his dreams and abilities. Poverty is not limited to your creativity, it is agile and has a great power of conviction, with your intelligence and ability to lie you will achieve the road towards the realization of your dreams.

Mr. Barnum after being dismissed from his job has the idea of ​​making a circus with the participation of people with particular characteristics or congenital deformities, at that time these people had to live hidden because they were usually sacrificed at birth. A show like this that brought together all kinds of human oddities was something socially challenging, a scourge that Barnum must fight.

The first minutes of filming are purely musical but for our tranquility after this time the story takes its cinematic direction with conventional performances, developing a script that makes us feel identified with the life of the protagonist, the plot makes us reflect about dreams when confronted with ethics and family with a message of self-esteem, and acceptance. The argument touches sensitive issues such as discrimination, classism and racism in a musical context.

The actors Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Zendaya and Rebecca Ferguson give us extraordinary performances, in a film so dynamic and fast that if you blink you lose a good part, it is entertaining and after 105 minutes of the film you are eager to see more, because This type of movies very little are made. It is a refreshing option in sight we can see majestic shows and some beautiful love stories. If you like romance and musicals this movie is for you, otherwise I do not recommend it.

The best of the production is costumes, dances, songs, set design and photography. Outside the circus the photograph is sober, the pastel colors stand out but inside the circus it changes to a festival of colors and lights that resemble fire, in addition to contrasting the colors in an original way the photograph also takes care of highlighting the beauty of the feminine faces and the elegance of the knights.

The dances are very elaborate, demonstrate the outstanding skills of the dancers, modern and with contemporary music that in the context of a period film is strange, but this contrast makes allusion that PT Barnum was ahead of his time and that the show that presented was new. The songs are compositions of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul the authors of the soundtrack of La La Land.

With this film Hugh Jackman is reunited with his roots, his beginnings in acting were in the musical theater before becoming Wolverine, with his song and dance he shows us that he has not lost faculties, because he does not become opaque next to the new king of the musicals Zac Efron, both do incredibly well. Hugh Jackman was at all times involved in the production, since it was a personal project, return to its roots and change the way you see the film musicals, which are usually long and heavy.