Tracing the thread…
His films like *Full Metal Jacket* and *A Clockwork Orange* intensely examine the psychological and institutional processes of recruiting, indoctrinating, and transforming individuals into soldiers or subjects of state control.
Ken Loach United KingdomThrough works like *Kes* and *I, Daniel Blake*, Loach explores how institutions and systems recruit and conscript people into cycles of poverty, labor, and social control.
Michael Haneke AustriaHis films such as *The Seventh Continent* and *Funny Games* investigate how ideology, media, and social forces recruit and radicalize individuals toward violence and extremism.