tells the story of 23-year-old Jacob, who suffered a life of hardships, his
parents were wiped out, and forced from veterinary school .
The veterinarian of "The Great Circus" began a difficult tour.
In his turbulent life, he experienced the horror years of the Great Depression in the United States.
Inside the circus, he also witnessed the alternating performances of deformed people and clowns and the backstage of the stage.
For Jacob, the circus is his redemption, but it is also the purgatory of the world.
It is the place where his dream resides and the beginning of his displacement...
He falls in love with the circus star Marlene
, the beautiful and pitiful Marlene Na has been wrongly married to August, a circus director who is handsome in appearance and cruel in heart.
An elephant named Rosie is the magic weapon of the circus owner who has ruined his family, but he can't understand even the simplest orders
. Rosie is tortured every day under August's brutal elephant hook,
Jacobina Rosie, and the two are dancing, leaping, and flipping the body in dazzling moments,
fighting to eat away at survival, interdependence and trust together Looking for a way out that is both romantic and terrifying,
and this has also become a secret that Jacob has kept for seventy years. The
whole story mainly takes place in the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Through the circus, the entire miniature society is portrayed as human beings
. The screenwriter of the film has been successful. The adaptation of "Land Dreams of the Covered Bridge" and "The Horse Whisperer",
but in this 2-hour film, it lacks the sense of depth and the sense of the times, and also lacks the sense of drama conflict.
Aside from this, it is not just an ordinary commercial romance. It is also unqualified in the
film. The two people in the triangular relationship are easy to love and easy to be together. Basically, there are no external obstacles.
For the first hour or so, the foreshadowing was dull and monotonous, lacking in the portrayal of characters and the rendering of inner entanglements.
For this successful novel, the film's dull plot makes people cry without tears.
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