Framed correctly (as Lionsgate really didn't) this is perhaps the most significant of all of the many films involving UK royalty. It captures quite vividly the start of a once-in-a-millenium sea-change. The vital initiative of MINGLING. It was not Diana and then Harry & Meghan who began this. It was George VI (with his close buddy Churchill) during WWII, and then Princess Elizabeth from shortly before the time of this movie, and then the Duke of Edinburgh, who initiated the heavy lifting. For decades Elizabeth mingled, with up to 1000 groups and communities and enterprises a year - many far from the UK - praising their worth and enforcing their connectedness. Socially and economically this really mattered. Diana and Harry & Meghan meant well, but their own mingling was rather rudderless. No wonder "Elizabeth" in the movie's very last frames is so joyfully empowered and magnetic. She had just brought a severely depressed airman back from the brink. She knows now that she can mingle purposefully. An inspired and actually not-so-lightweight movie.
Review of A Royal Night Out
