greed and desperation

His films like *Taxi Driver*, *Raging Bull*, and *The Wolf of Wall Street* obsessively explore the psychological underbelly of ambition, greed, and moral desperation.

Works such as *Requiem for a Dream* and *The Wrestler* viscerally depict characters consumed by desperation and the corrosive nature of addiction and obsessive desire.

Films like *Parasite* and *Snowpiercer* dissect class-based desperation and greed with dark humor and social critique, showing how desperation drives moral compromise.