theatrical mockery

His films use exaggerated physical comedy and absurdist scenarios to mock social conventions, consumerism, and modern bureaucracy through deadpan theatrical performance.

He masterfully employed theatrical satire and dark comedy to mock Hollywood pretension, human hypocrisy, and societal corruption with sharp, cynical wit.

His surrealist cinema relentlessly mocked bourgeois morality, religious institutions, and social rituals through grotesque, theatrical imagery and subversive humor.