vengeance bred through parentage

His masterpiece 'Oldboy' and 'The Handmaiden' explore how trauma and vengeance become cyclical legacies passed through families and relationships.

Films like 'Hereditary' directly explore how family curses, inherited trauma, and generational vengeance define and destroy familial bonds.

His work examines how parental cruelty and childhood trauma breed destructive patterns of control and revenge within deeply dysfunctional family units.