greed and ambition

His films like *Taxi Driver*, *Raging Bull*, and *The Wolf of Wall Street* obsessively examine the psychological consequences of unchecked ambition and moral corruption.

*Parasite* and *Snowpiercer* dissect class ambition and greed through darkly comic narratives that expose systemic inequality and moral desperation.

*Network*, *Dog Day Afternoon*, and *Power* penetrate the corrupting influence of ambition in institutions from media to politics with unflinching social realism.