wealth and materialism

His films like *Wall Street*, *The Wolf of Wall Street*, and *Goodfellas* obsessively dissect the corrupting allure of wealth and the moral decay it produces.

Films like *Parasite* and *Snowpiercer* use class struggle and material inequality as central metaphors for systemic injustice and human desperation.

His cinema, particularly *Accattone* and *Teorema*, critiques consumer capitalism and materialism while exposing the spiritual emptiness beneath capitalist society.