class inversion

His surrealist films systematically deconstruct and mock class hierarchies, exposing the absurdity of social stratification through darkly comedic inversions.

His realist cinema directly portrays working-class struggles and the arbitrary cruelty of class systems, often showing how institutional power inverts human dignity.

His films explicitly explore literal and figurative class inversion, most notably in *Parasite* where he deconstructs the boundaries between servant and master classes.