fingerprint forgery

His obsession with identity, deception, and forensic detail in films like *Zodiac* and *Gone Girl* explores how criminals obscure their traces and how investigators reconstruct identity from fragments.

His philosophical approach to identity and alienation in *Blow-Up* and *The Passenger* examines how the self can be mistaken, constructed, and fundamentally unknowable beneath surface appearances.

His thriller aesthetic repeatedly explores identity theft, impersonation, and the unreliability of visual and forensic evidence as seen in *Dressed to Kill* and *Body Double*.