The place of Sándor Kisfaludy in Hungarian literature is secured by his first work, Kesergő szerelem (1801; "Bitter Love"), a lyric cycle depending on a very thin narrative thread.
The film is just a series of such "conflicts" that drive a very thin narrative forward, offering idyllic Christmas scene after idyllic Christmas scene, all leading up to the inevitable happy and romantic ending.
Lyric fiction has become, inevitably, a style, a manner, and the pitfalls of its mannerisms became clear with the publication of Ondaatje's "Divisadero" in 2007, a book whose rather thin narrative thread all but disappeared in a fog of self-conscious artistry.
Released in 2012 by two-man team Dennaton Games, Hotline Miami turned the thin narrative of a hallucinating hitman carrying out assassination missions for a weird coterie of gang bosses, into an aggressively trippy indie classic.
The chattering chorus, meanwhile, repeatedly interrupts the thin narrative, which has a modest, highfalutin rationale (each interruption frustrates your desire to see what happens next), but really just lays the ground for some nasty payback.
As beautiful as they are, the sequences stop the thin narrative dead in its tracks.
There are plenty of dances with thin narrative lines, and flamenco in particular struggles with the problem of conveying plot.
The movie "Avatar" strikes me as Mannerist through and through, generating terrific sensations of originality from a hodgepodge of worn-thin narrative and pictorial tropes.
On stage, you can see people making themselves up, changing from moment to moment; it quickly becomes obvious that an identity may be just a thin thread of narrative stringing together totally different characters.
