Point A to Point B

We discuss this topic a lot in todays world I believe, that is the topic of what constitutes a narrative? Of course if a film takes us from a starting point then to an end point it has some sort of narrative doesn't it? Well in the case of "Duck Soup" it is hard to tell. The Main focus on this film was small gags or skits that happened to take your mind off the rest of the content, but as these events play out a backing story is still being displayed so in a sense I feel this fits as a fine narrative. Now when looking more at a piece like "The Way Things Go" the standard view of what is narrative and what is non conventional is skewed slightly. WE have a film that is played out similar to a game of Mouse Trap or a domino set up, one object hits another and causes a chain reaction of events, but then you have to ask yourself isnt that what a narrative is? Certainly it has a beginning a build up, a end point events, time, things that make up a story are all there... so why do some feel differently? It deserves to be called a narrative just as Duck Soup does, just because we dont exactly have a antagonist and a protagonist and a plot twist in Way things go, or a solid story structure or non fiction terms as seen in Duck Soup, they both still constitute a story in my book. Even though that might seem hard to understand for most I feel it is crucial in todays world where so many non linear film works are appearing and becoming a lot more prominent.