deception and honesty

His films like Gone Girl and The Social Network obsessively explore how characters manipulate truth and construct false identities to achieve their goals.

Works such as The Handmaiden and Oldboy use elaborate deceptions and unreliable narratives to question what viewers believe they've witnessed.

His humanistic approach examines moral ambiguity and the gap between characters' true selves and their facades, particularly in films like The 400 Blows.