Water for Elephants

'Water for Elephants' is a film based upon the novel written by Sara Gruen.  The story portrays a travelling circus - The Benzini Brothers Circus in America.  The film gives you an insight to a travelling/performing/working lifestyle and how unfair life could be working under 'the big top.'  If the circus wasn't making enough money workers would be tossed of the circus trains to avoid having to pay them.  Animals were poorly treated, the lion missing all of its teeth and the elephant being forced to do things by violence.