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

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.

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.

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.

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.