identity and role-playing

His films like *Fight Club* and *The Game* obsessively explore fractured identities, unreliable narrators, and the masks people wear in modern society.

His work deconstructs social roles and identity through performances that blur authenticity and artifice, particularly in *In a Year of 13 Moons* and *The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant*.

She examines how identity shifts across time and circumstance in films like *Vagabond* and *The Gleaners and I*, exploring the roles people adopt and are forced into.