teenage guilt

Her films like 'Lady Bird' and 'Nights and Weekends' intimately capture the emotional complexity and moral ambiguity of adolescence through nuanced character development.

Her psychological approach in films like 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' explores guilt, trauma, and the troubled inner lives of young people with visceral intensity.

His darkly surreal films like 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' probe adolescent morality and complicity through unsettling, thought-provoking narratives that challenge conventional guilt and innocence.