Tracing the thread…
Kubrick systematically deconstructed the nature of evil through technology, psychology, and human nature in films like 'A Clockwork Orange' and '2001: A Space Odyssey', exploring whether evil can be contained or engineered out of existence.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder GermanyFassbinder examined how social systems, power dynamics, and individual complicity perpetuate evil in 'The Marriage of Maria Braun' and 'Ali: Fear Eats the Soul', showing evil as structural rather than exceptional.
Joachim Trier DenmarkVon Trier provocatively challenges the notion of moral certainty in 'Antichrist' and 'Dancer in the Dark', suggesting that evil may be inherent to existence itself rather than something that can be proven or disproven.