business ambition

His films like 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and 'Goodfellas' obsessively explore the corrupting nature of ambition and the moral price of climbing hierarchies.

Through films like 'The Social Network' and 'Gone Girl,' he examines ambition's psychological depths and how it drives characters to ruthless calculation.

His darkly absurdist works like 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' dissect how ambition and power corrupt relationships and human dignity.