wealth and status

His films obsessively explore the corrupting allure of wealth and power, from gangsters to Wall Street traders, revealing the moral emptiness beneath material success.

He masterfully dissects class hierarchies and economic inequality through genre cinema, making wealth disparity visceral and socially urgent in works like 'Parasite' and 'Snowpiercer'.

His provocative films critique bourgeois decadence and expose how wealth and status mask moral decay and spiritual corruption in modern society.