hidden wealth

His films obsessively examine class hierarchies and hidden economic inequalities through inventive visual metaphors, most notably in *Parasite* and *Snowpiercer*.

He explores how wealth shapes identity and morality in *There Will Be Blood* and *Boogie Nights*, revealing the hidden costs of ambition and material accumulation.

His films investigate how poverty and economic desperation remain hidden beneath ordinary lives, and how people create false wealth and family bonds to survive, as in *Shoplifters*.