ambition and its cost

His films like *Black Swan* and *The Wrestler* meticulously dissect how obsessive ambition corrodes the self and relationships.

Works such as *Hereditary* and *Midsommar* explore how personal ambitions and desires inevitably exact psychological and emotional tolls.

Films like *The Killing of a Sacred Deer* and *Poor Things* examine ambition's destructive consequences through darkly surreal moral narratives.