greed versus conscience

His films like *Taxi Driver*, *Raging Bull*, and *The Wolf of Wall Street* obsessively explore the moral decay that accompanies ambition and the internal conflict between desire and redemption.

Works such as *The Wrestler*, *Black Swan*, and *Requiem for a Dream* dissect how obsession and self-destructive pursuit of goals expose the human soul's darkest struggles between conscience and compulsion.

Films like *A Separation* and *The Salesman* masterfully depict how ordinary people rationalize compromising their morals when faced with social pressure, poverty, or wounded pride.