Director Brian DePalma makes a good point speaking with Sean Axmaker at Greencine about his new film Redacted:

And I also think, certainly with digital storytelling, it's a new way to tell narrative, to create narrative. I've made a lot of movies and most narrative forms have been pretty much exhausted now. They do them on television, they've recycled every plot and character you can imagine, so now there are whole new ways to deal with story forms that are emerging in these bits on the web."

This is so true in many ways. Although traditional storytelling has been (and will be) around for ages, I can't help thinking that we need new ways to tell stories. The old ways just don't always hold the power  they should.  It could very well be that commerce has driven the medium to death and people are just plain tired of movies, television, and even books (the latter  do have a history, albeit small, of trying experimental naratives) The question then becomes is the market ready for new forms of narratives, even with the explosion of internet platforms like youtube, etc.?

I honestly don't know. I read a lot of experimental fiction and watch some experimental films, some of which works and some of which do not. What do you think? Will Aristotle and his rules of story be dethroned?