moral comeuppance

His films obsessively explore characters whose sins inevitably catch up with them, from Travis Bickle to Henry Hill to Leonardo DiCaprio's con artists.

His Decalogue and Three Colors trilogy profoundly examine how moral transgressions reverberate through interconnected lives with philosophical precision.

His transgressive films like Audition and Ichi graphically depict how violence and cruelty generate consequences that consume perpetrators and innocents alike.