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His films like Taxi Driver and The Wolf of Wall Street obsessively explore how personal ambition collides with social circumstances and moral decay.

Bicycle Thieves and Umberto D. poignantly depict individuals whose ambitions are crushed by poverty and systemic circumstance beyond their control.

His films like A City of Sadness and The Assassin examine how historical circumstance and social constraints shape or thwart individual ambitions across generations.