What's going to happen to x, not what's going to happen, is what gets us to follow a narrative, because we are accustomed to synthesizing characters through time (i.e. identifying--ourselves and others), and we do it with fictional characters. The gaps between scenes are much broader than we recognize because of how we make arbitrary brackets distinguishing a part and a whole. A movie? There's no such thing as a movie. The distinctions we make between homogeneous and heterogeneous frame the way we see everything.