causality paradox

His films like Memento, Inception, and Tenet systematically deconstruct linear causality through narrative structure and explore the paradoxes of cause preceding effect.

Arrival uses linguistic causality and non-linear time to examine how perception of cause-and-effect shapes human understanding of free will and destiny.

His films like Loveless and The Banishment explore how moral causality becomes ambiguous when characters' actions produce unforeseen consequences that question responsibility itself.