That's the best title I could come up with, sue me.

I've been trying to write some short films lately, nothing specific just write. And I find I keep coming back to the same central concept for them.

DiF has infamously pegged a Kubrickian style film as one that will just throw you in the middle of the action and allow you to just experience it for yourself. But DiF also talks a lot about having a spine for your movie, (That central theme or moral that your movie surrounds itself around). And when I'm writing I keep coming back to this whole idea of just throwing the audience into the scene and watching as the character goes through whatever events happen and watching them change and grow. But there isn't any real spine to the story, it's just watching this human being change by what's happening. (In one case the character starts off literally as a blank slate and as it progresses the character evolves out of the events she has to live through.

Is there any real merit to that style of storytelling or am I just bad at this?