redemption and disgrace

His films like *The Wrestler* and *Requiem for a Dream* devastatingly explore characters' cycles of degradation and failed attempts at redemption.

He examines moral corruption and the possibility of redemption through violence and complicity in works like *Funny Games* and *The Seventh Continent*.

His philosophical masterpieces like *Stalker* and *Andrei Rublev* probe spiritual redemption against human weakness and the weight of past failures.