Although it is just plain fun to rank a director's movies, it may also help me think about the director's oeuvre of work as a whole. Comparisons can help me to discover elements of film that I am drawn to, what the director finds value in revealing through their movies and possibly how the director has grown artistically.
McQueen often deals with themes of oppression, how societies can oppress minorities, usually in historically extreme contexts, but also how people can personally suffer from oppression of their own minds.
This kind of oppression often takes the form of an obsession and so sometimes the oppression is brought upon by oneself especially as people are willing to go to extreme lengths or…
