fictional violence made real

His films like Se7en and Fight Club blur the line between cinematic fantasy and psychological reality, making viewers question what violence means when depicted versus experienced.

Irréversible and Climax force audiences to confront how film form itself can make fictional violence visceral and inescapable, challenging the safety of spectatorship.

Funny Games explicitly critiques the audience's complicity in enjoying fictional violence by making the film itself perform an act of violence against the viewer.