remote control

His meticulously controlled filmmaking style and exploration of human agency versus technological determinism in films like *2001: A Space Odyssey* and *A Clockwork Orange* embodies the theme of remote control over destiny.

His body horror and science fiction films repeatedly examine the loss of bodily autonomy and the invasion of external control into intimate human spaces, most notably in *Videodrome* and *eXistenZ*.

His films like *Being John Malkovich* and *Synecdoche, New York* obsessively probe themes of manipulation, puppet-mastery, and the illusion of free will within constructed realities.