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His obsessive visual style and exploration of perception, surveillance, and what we see versus what is true deeply engages with themes of sight and blindness in films like 'Gone Girl' and 'The Game'.

His deliberate manipulation of the viewer's gaze and examination of how we witness violence and reality challenges our relationship with sight in works like 'Funny Games' and 'Cache'.

His experimental use of camera angles, distorted perspectives, and visual assault in films like 'Irréversible' and '3D' physically and philosophically explores the act of looking itself.