Insubordination

His films systematically deconstruct authority and power structures, from military hierarchy in Full Metal Jacket to totalitarian control in A Clockwork Orange.

He relentlessly mocked social conventions and institutional authority through surrealism, most notably depicting bourgeois hypocrisy and rebellion against societal norms.

His revolutionary approach to cinema itself constitutes insubordination against narrative convention, while his films examine political rebellion and rejection of established order.