greed and betrayal

Juxtaposition of extreme close-ups and vast landscapes creating operatic visual poetry.

His films like Goodfellas and The Wolf of Wall Street meticulously dissect how ambition and greed corrupt characters from within, leading to inevitable betrayal and self-destruction.

His work, particularly in Funny Games and The Seventh Continent, explores the moral bankruptcy beneath surface civility and how greed for power leads to casual betrayal of human dignity.