end of millennium

His films like Se7en and Fight Club dissect the spiritual emptiness and societal decay of late 1990s America with a nihilistic lens that epitomizes millennial anxiety.

Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark explore human suffering and apocalyptic despair as the century closes, positioning faith and hope as collapsing constructs.

In the Mood for Love and 2046 capture the melancholic nostalgia and temporal displacement of a world on the brink of massive transformation and loss.