time theft

His films obsessively explore temporal manipulation and how time shapes human destiny, from backward narratives in Memento to the physics-bending Tenet and Interstellar.

His meditative, lengthy films deliberately consume and reshape the viewer's perception of time itself, making temporal experience the primary subject rather than plot.

Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 examine how time perception determines identity and consciousness, with characters literally experiencing time as a stolen or surrendered dimension of self.