stagecoach (1939) & post modern conflict styles

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I think I'm finally landing on grade six english teachers for this rise of 'The Trauma Plot' in popular culture; spoken about analytically in a New Yorker article last year. Specifically when discussing the differing types of conflict in narratives and ushering upon the story-tellers of tomorrow a sense of the post modern person versus self is the superior and deepest of all struggles. Perhaps I'm getting lost in my own menagerie of words, but it's not the coy superiority that I have a problem with, but the inherent disregard to the old forms of conflict that I found myself thinking when in school. 

But now I've sat down to watch 1939's Stagecoach on a bright boxing day morning and are presented with a good honest film, about stoic & dimensional characters that exist in a physical world. Perhaps that's what I'm missing from most modern films, a physicality of sorts. People existing in a vacuum and wallowing in their own narcissistic self pitiful analysis. This movie is about a stage coach getting shot at by arrows and rounds of ammunition while still finding time to have societal and personal conflicts, movies can contain multitudes people! 

Well, with the holidays I have family all around and I can only escape for so long to yell at the digital sky of the internet so I'm left leaving half baked thoughts in a rambling manner and using inappropriate pretentious lingo. Well, if that isn't me in a nutshell.