generational crime

His films like 'Shoplifters' and 'Broker' examine how poverty and crime pass through families across generations, exploring complicity and inherited trauma.

Through works like 'Se7en' and 'Zodiac', he investigates how criminal pathology echoes across time and generations, with obsession and violence as inherited legacies.

His socially conscious films like 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Kes' trace how systemic injustice and desperation create cycles of crime across working-class generations.