surveillance and entrapment

His films like 'Red Sparrow' and 'Hunger Games' series explore psychological manipulation, control systems, and characters trapped within oppressive power structures.

His masterpiece 'Playtime' depicts modern society as an inescapable maze of bureaucratic systems and surveillance where individuals are reduced to components in an impersonal machine.

Films like 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' and 'The Favourite' present claustrophobic worlds where characters are psychologically trapped by social rituals, power dynamics, and inescapable circumstances.