This new narrative allows us to observe a principled person working hard to make something happen.
But the reality of these stories is always more complicated than their narrative allows.
"Platform," fuelled more by opinions and riffs and moments of provocation than by thorough narrative, allows such questionings to enter the reader's head far too often.
Their made-for-TV shows – Soderbergh's K Street and Unscripted, Winterbottom's The Trip and Family – have luxuriated in the time and space that a serial narrative allows.
The nearly unlimited access the directors have to the lives of their subjects intensifies the narrative, allowing us to drift along in the swells and eddies of Peter's and Santino's time in the United States.
As with the original film, there will be several linked episodes, the multilinear narrative allowing for an ensemble cast which sees the returning Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba and Powers Boothe joining a raft of newcomers.
Before Austen, novelists chose between first-person narrative (letting us into the mind of a character, but limiting us to his or her understanding) and third-person narrative (allowing us a God-like view of all the characters, but making them pieces in an authorial game).
Julius's peripatetic wanderings and their connections to personal histories — both his own and those of the people he meets — form the driving narrative, allowing him to reflect on his adopted New York, the Africa of his youth, the America of today and a Europe wary of its future.
The breaks in the narrative allow White to nudge his story forward by several years at a time, but also to shift point-of-view, moving from a third-person description of Jack's life that mirrors his tendency towards detachment, to Will's first-person account of his adventures, which strengthens our view of him as a rather bland sentimentalist.
