For another example however.
Say you want to tell the story of the life of an everyday person who has been stranded on a desert island for 3-5 years now.
Just because they don't change their perspective at all because they're used to the lonlieness and living for sustenance the story is suddenly not good?
Is the story bad because there is no sudden plot twist where captain good guy runs in and saves the day, or because the person ends the movie in the same miserable place they've begun?
Isn't there a message just in the "I am a person. I have been reduced to simply surviving... feel what i feel?"
Isn't conveying to a person exactly what the main character is feeling the most important aspect of storytelling?
Well in cases where the characters aren't being used simply as objects to prove a greater point... in which case flat characters are actually more prevelant.
