populism vs conservatism

His films celebrate the common man against corrupt elites and institutional power, embodying populist ideals through everyman heroes challenging the establishment.

His social realist cinema consistently documents working-class struggles against conservative institutions and neoliberal policies, advocating for the dispossessed.

His provocative films interrogate both revolutionary populism and bourgeois conservatism, critiquing mass culture while mourning traditional societies threatened by modernization.