misfits and outcasts

His films consistently explore class division and social alienation through protagonists trapped between societal hierarchies, most powerfully in Parasite and Snowpiercer.

She centers marginalized individuals and nomadic communities as protagonists, celebrating their resilience and dignity in films like Nomadland and The Eternal Memory.

His decades of social realist cinema give voice to working-class misfits and economically displaced people navigating systemic indifference and bureaucratic cruelty.