human greed

His films like *Wall Street*, *The Wolf of Wall Street*, and *Casino* obsessively dissect the corrupting nature of greed and material ambition in American capitalism.

*Sunset Boulevard* and *The Apartment* masterfully expose greed's moral consequences through darkly comic examinations of Hollywood ambition and workplace exploitation.

*Parasite* and *Snowpiercer* use genre-bending narratives to critique class-based greed and the systemic inequalities it perpetuates across society.