Considering Interventions and Narratives

As far as The Marx Brother's "Duck Soup" goes, i feel it is most definetly a narrative film. It relays a story to the viewer through a progression of related scenes and characters. It gets from point A to point B over the course of conflict and resolution. "The Way Things Are," i feel, also goes from A to B, but in a more obscure and not neccesarily a narrative fashion. I see this film as more of an intervention than the other. There is no human audio interaction that would take away from the focus of the sort of 'cause and effect' patterns and scenarios we view in the film. This linear progression differs from Duck Soup in a way that the audience member is able to interpret what's on screen more freely and without the subjective influence an actual story with plot might have.