motel

His film 'The Apartment' uses the motel/hotel setting as a backdrop for exploring loneliness, desire, and moral compromise in urban America.

Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Lost Highway' use motel spaces as liminal zones where reality fractures and psychological darkness emerges.

Van Sant's films like 'My Own Private Idaho' use motels as transient spaces exploring marginalization, intimacy, and the American underbelly.