risk-taking and rule-breaking

His films like Fight Club and The Social Network obsessively explore characters who challenge societal rules and push moral boundaries to expose systemic corruption.

Works such as Sicario and Prisoners examine protagonists forced into morally ambiguous risk-taking and rule-breaking to achieve their objectives against institutional systems.

His revenge narratives in Oldboy and The Handmaiden center on protagonists who methodically break laws and social codes, questioning the ethics of their transgressive choices.