obsession with money

His films like *Taxi Driver*, *Raging Bull*, and *The Wolf of Wall Street* obsessively examine how money and ambition corrupt characters and consume their moral centers.

His revolutionary cinema, particularly *Battleship Potemkin* and *October*, critiques capitalist obsession with wealth and explores class struggle through radical visual language.

His visually poetic films like *Chungking Express* and *In the Mood for Love* capture the melancholic alienation of characters trapped in consumerist urban economies driven by financial desperation.