fame and success

His masterpieces like 'Sunset Boulevard' and 'The Apartment' dissect the corrupting nature of ambition and the human cost of climbing Hollywood's hierarchies.

Films like 'The Social Network' and 'Gone Girl' explore obsession with power, status, and how the pursuit of success can fundamentally warp identity and morality.

'8½' and 'La Dolce Vita' offer surreal, introspective examinations of celebrity culture, artistic ambition, and the hollow emptiness beneath society's glamorous surface.