storytelling as survival

His films like *Birdman* and *The Revenant* explore how individuals survive through narrative self-creation and the stories they tell themselves about identity and redemption.

In *The Killing of a Sacred Deer* and *Poor Things*, he examines how characters construct and reconstruct reality through dialogue and fabricated narratives to endure psychological and physical trauma.

His works like *Arrival* and *Sicario* demonstrate how understanding and creating stories—linguistic, cultural, or personal—become acts of survival in hostile or incomprehensible worlds.