good intentions gone wrong

His films like *Gone Girl* and *Social Network* meticulously dissect how ambition and seemingly justified motivations spiral into moral corruption and unintended consequences.

The Coen Brothers repeatedly explore ordinary people whose desperate or well-meaning choices trigger catastrophic chains of events, most notably in *Fargo* and *No Country for Old Men*.

Haneke's brutal cinema examines how moral righteousness and protective instincts become vehicles for violence and psychological destruction in films like *Funny Games* and *Cache*.