comic consequences

His films like Playtime and Mon Oncle transform mundane modern situations into elaborate physical comedy where the consequences of technological progress unfold through meticulous visual gags.

Wilder masterfully traces how small moral compromises and human follies spiral into darkly comic catastrophes, as seen in Sunset Boulevard and The Apartment.

His silent films exploit the physics of slapstick to show how one character's determination creates a domino effect of increasingly absurd and dangerous consequences.