opium addiction

His films like 'Fallen Angels' and 'My Blueberry Nights' explore addiction, dependency, and emotional deterioration through stylized visuals and fractured narratives.

His masterpiece 'Requiem for a Dream' provides one of cinema's most visceral and psychologically devastating portrayals of addiction in all its forms.

His historical dramas, particularly those set in early 20th-century China, examine opium's social destruction and personal tragedy with poetic restraint and moral depth.