Based on the experience of the circus tycoon Barnum, "The King of the Circus" is not a biographical film in the traditional sense. The gorgeous and stunning musical drama has become the highlight of its new approach. If you look at "The King of the Circus" as a musical, it is particularly outstanding. Impeccable scene scheduling, gorgeous costumes and props, and lingering music are everywhere in "The King of the Circus". It can be seen that his efforts in song and dance choreography, and even many scenes make the film have the temperament of a Hollywood masterpiece, but under the dazzling song and dance coat, what the film can't hide is its inner barrenness. , With the development of the plot, the movie not only failed to give love and dreams what shape, but became illusory. Although "The King of the Circus" originates from reality, compared to the real Barnum, his greedy and cunning life, the movie has decorated Barnum's life with too much false beauty in order to praise love and dreams, which makes the whole In fact, the story seems to have lost its true foundation at the beginning, and the film uses the succession and transformation of several event nodes in Barnum, and completely neglects to pave the way for the characters' emotions, which makes it even if it has "Uncle Wolf" Hugh Jackman's starring can't make Barnum the protagonist in the movie vivid, and even the movie doesn't have a character that can move people from beginning to end. "The King of the Circus" neither lashes out at the ugliness of reality nor injects sincere emotion into an unreal fairy tale of love and dreams.
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