THEME EXPLORATION
hubris and ambition
35 films · 2 directors
Tracing the thread…
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Billy Wilder
Austria-United States
*Sunset Boulevard* and *The Apartment* expose how ambition blinds characters to moral consequences and human cost.
Darren Aronofsky United StatesHis obsessive protagonists in *Black Swan*, *The Wrestler*, and *Mother!* spiral into self-destruction through relentless ambition and pride.