temptation and sin

His films like *Salò* and *Canterbury Tales* unflinchingly explore the transgressive boundaries between desire, corruption, and moral decay.

Works such as *Antichrist* and *Nymphomaniac* deliberately provoke by examining sexual temptation, guilt, and the collision between faith and human weakness.

His Catholic sensibility infuses films like *Taxi Driver* and *The Last Temptation of Christ* with spiritual struggle between redemption and moral corruption.