[iopq]

And then there's a movie like Clerks which has a lot of filler, but ends up being endearing. Most of the dialogue is just people saying funny random stuff.

[huxley]

If you enjoyed that approach, it's worth checking out the Nouvelle Vague/New Wave films.

Channel Criswell did a decent short intro:

https://youtu.be/0R7R0JHvvgo

[mathgeek]

Clerks actually has a lot of polar changes in that filler, though. As the topics of conversation change, your mind goes with it and your emotions shift. Similar to other "geek out" movies.

[iopq]

Of course, if it didn't it would just be boring. But it does have things that are funny for the sake of being funny.

[PunchTornado]

if everything is a polar change, nothing is a polar change.

having a boring conversation about nothing doesn't make it a series of polar changes.

[rhizome]

On the contrary, and just pulling a number out of my butt because I haven't watched in in awhile, I'd say there's like 20 conflicts and resolutions throughout the course of the plot. Maybe this makes the movie more of an epistolary than the three-act structure that movies are normally compared against, so zooming out until some overarching consistency emerges is not always the most faithful mode of analysis.