control and confinement

His films obsessively explore psychological and physical confinement, from prison systems in A Clockwork Orange to the claustrophobic spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

He systematically dismantles illusions of freedom in modern life, with works like Funny Games depicting trapped victims and Cache examining surveillance and control.

His formally innovative films use camera constraints and narrative structures to trap viewers in claustrophobic spaces and inescapable moral situations, particularly in Irreversible and Enter the Void.