cycle of violence

His films like *Se7en* and *Zodiac* meticulously examine how violence perpetuates through obsession and systemic cycles that consume both perpetrators and investigators.

His *Vengeance Trilogy* is a masterwork on cycles of retribution where each act of violence begets another in an inescapable spiral of revenge and moral degradation.

Films like *Irreversible* and *Climax* confront viewers with how violence disrupts time and causality itself, showing how brutality echoes backward and forward through lives.