ambition and social mobility

His films like Taxi Driver and The Wolf of Wall Street obsessively explore the corrupting nature of ambition and the dark costs of climbing social hierarchies.

Parasite and Snowpiercer use class conflict and desperate social climbing as central metaphors for examining inequality and the illusion of upward mobility.

The Wrestler and Black Swan depict protagonists consumed by their obsessive ambition, revealing how the pursuit of success can lead to psychological destruction and loss of humanity.