Meaning: The movie's narrative held our attention and kept us involved and interested.
Choice of Words: Story - a narrative of events, kept - held our attention, engaged - involved and interested.
Alternative Expressions
The story held our attention.
Meaning: This means that the story kept our focus and made us want to continue paying attention to it.
Choice of Words:Held is a verb that means to keep or maintain something. Our refers to the people who were engaged. Attention means to focus on something.
We were engrossed in the story.
Meaning: This means that we were totally absorbed in the story and found it very interesting.
Choice of Words:Engrossed means to be completely absorbed or interested in something. In indicates that we were focused on the story. Story refers to the specific narrative that we were engaged with.