fake death

His films like *Gone Girl* and *The Game* masterfully explore deception, false identities, and staged deaths as central narrative devices.

In *The Passenger*, he examines identity dissolution and assuming another's life through a protagonist who literally takes a dead man's identity.

His thrillers like *Blow Out* and *Body Double* obsessively explore faked deaths, mistaken identities, and the unreliability of witnessed truth.