anti-establishment

His surrealist films systematically dismantled social conventions, religious institutions, and bourgeois morality through absurdist narratives that challenged institutional authority.

He revolutionized cinema itself as an act of rebellion, deconstructing narrative conventions and directly confronting political power structures, capitalism, and the film industry establishment.

His realist films expose systemic injustice and governmental failures through intimate portraits of working-class struggle, consistently critiquing institutional oppression and bureaucratic cruelty.