dangerous debt

His films explore psychological and emotional debt through family trauma, particularly how past traumas create inescapable obligations in works like Hereditary and Midsommar.

He examines economic debt and class struggle as inescapable traps that corrupt relationships and morality, most powerfully in Parasite and Snowpiercer.

His thrillers obsessively depict how characters become trapped by debts—financial, moral, or psychological—that escalate into violence and psychological destruction.