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His films obsessively explore identity, disguise, and role-playing through costume and performance, most notably in Eyes Wide Shut where elaborate masquerade serves as the central metaphor.

His melodramas consistently use costume, artifice, and theatrical performance to examine identity, desire, and social roles beneath surface appearances.

His films celebrate costume, drag, and performative identity as liberating expressions of authentic selfhood, with characters using dress and artifice to transcend social constraints.