agricultural risk

His films like 'The Assassin' and 'A Time to Live and a Time to Die' explore the precarious relationship between human survival and natural/social forces in rural and agricultural contexts.

His socially conscious films such as 'Kes' and 'I, Daniel Blake' persistently examine economic vulnerability and survival struggles of working-class and rural communities dependent on agricultural systems.

His meditative films like 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives' deeply engage with rural Thai life, time, mortality, and the vulnerability of agricultural communities to modernization and change.