The notion of the young Princess Elizabeth disguising herself on VE Day, abandoning her chaperone, and sneaking downstairs at the Ritz to dance a joyful jitterbug is cringe-making enough, but as the "Crown" writers envisioned it, she is also shown, most implausibly, striking an unlikely 2023-ish blow for diversity while surrounded by a cheering, implausibly diverse crowd. And of course, this episode turns the incident into a sort of epiphany, a precious moment of liberation.
This ranks with that ridiculous key dramatic scene in "Darkest Hour," when Churchill, totally against character, wanders down into the London tube and, in a p.c. Epiphany similar to that of "The Crown," gets his spine stiffened in the fight against the Nazis by a passenger quoting from Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome." He goes back upstairs, resolved to carry on the good fight.
It is really amazing, the shameless, pernicious nonsense that filmmakers are foisting on us!
This ranks with that ridiculous key dramatic scene in "Darkest Hour," when Churchill, totally against character, wanders down into the London tube and, in a p.c. Epiphany similar to that of "The Crown," gets his spine stiffened in the fight against the Nazis by a passenger quoting from Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome." He goes back upstairs, resolved to carry on the good fight.
It is really amazing, the shameless, pernicious nonsense that filmmakers are foisting on us!