Tracing the thread…
His surrealist films systematically deconstruct social hierarchies and religious institutions through grotesque mockery and humiliation of human pretension.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder GermanyHe unflinchingly depicts power dynamics, social cruelty, and the humiliation inherent in relationships and class systems with raw emotional intensity.
Pier Paolo Pasolini ItalyHis provocative cinema uses degradation and humiliation as tools to critique bourgeois society and expose violence hidden beneath social norms.