blindness as advantage

His films like 'The Sisters Brothers' and 'Dheepan' explore how characters navigate moral and emotional blindness to survive and find unexpected grace.

In 'The Blind Sword' and his broader work, he examines how limitation of perception forces characters toward deeper human connection and emotional truth.

His obsessive characters in films like 'Se7en' and 'Gone Girl' are willfully blind to their own complicity, revealing how blindness to oneself can paradoxically sharpen one's vision of others' sins.