competitive games

His films obsessively examine power hierarchies and competitive survival, most explicitly in Squid Game and Parasite, where characters clash in rigged systems of competition.

He crafts psychological thrillers centered on intense competition and strategic gameplay, from The Social Network's cutthroat tech rivalry to the chess-like cat-and-mouse dynamics in Se7en.

His absurdist narratives frequently pit characters against each other in bizarre competitive scenarios and rule-based games, most notably in The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Poor Things.