digital escapism

His films like 'Perfect Blue' and 'Paprika' blur the boundaries between reality and digital/dream worlds, exploring how escapism through media can consume and distort identity.

Films like 'The Social Network' and 'Gone Girl' examine how digital platforms and constructed online personas enable escape from reality and create alternate identities.

His works explore how individuals retreat into rituals, alternate realities, and constructed worlds to escape trauma and unbearable truths of existence.