flooding

His films like 'Leviathan' use water and flood symbolism to explore moral decay and the inundation of corruption in Russian society.

His apocalyptic works, particularly 'Satantango' and 'Sátántangó', feature persistent rain and flooded landscapes as metaphors for societal collapse and spiritual devastation.

His films like 'After the Storm' directly engage with flooding as both literal disaster and metaphor for emotional turmoil and family dysfunction in contemporary Japan.