altering the past

His films like Interstellar and Tenet explicitly manipulate temporal mechanics, exploring how altering or understanding the past reshapes the present and future.

His philosophical works, particularly Stalker and Mirror, meditate on memory, time, and how our perception of the past fundamentally transforms reality and identity.

Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 deeply explore how knowledge of past and future events can alter human consciousness and decisions in profound, non-linear ways.