His films like 'The Apartment' and 'Sunset Boulevard' expose the moral compromises and human costs of corporate ambition and institutional power.

He masterfully dissected corporate corruption and institutional decay in films like 'Network' and 'Serpico,' revealing how organizations devour individuals.

His unflinching examinations of modern systems in works like 'The Seventh Continent' and 'Code Unknown' depict the dehumanizing collapse of social and corporate structures.