Ok for something resembling a more serious answer, I’ve always found it weird when things outside of a film itself affected people’s opinions on the film itself. Like I don’t care that an actor or director was caught saying something dumb or the people don’t speak out in support of something. If the film is good or bad, then that stuff shouldn’t affect it imo. I know films don’t exist in a bubble, but whenever I talk to people and they bring this up for why they do or don’t like something or think it’s over or underrated then I just get really confused.
Because art has meaning only through our emotional attachment. Literally anything can upset that balance.
I’d be willing to bet that you also have a tipping point.
Maybe you you don’t care if a director is charged with allegations of sexual impropriety. But what if it’s molesting a child? What if that child lived in your town? What if that child were your 15 year old niece? What if she was your 10 year old daughter? What if she were murdered?
At some point (hopefully long before your daughter is murdered!), most of us would probably form a personal opinion about this crazy-ass director who’s running around and committing heinous crimes, and it would skew our perception of their work. It’s just that the line in the sand is a bit different for all of us.
I just can’t see myself having that line considering film is a collaborative effort and I can’t bring myself to say this work is bad or whatever cause of what a singular person involved in it did. Woody Allen is a shit head, but Hannah and Her Sisters is an insanely well made film that had me feeling so many different things with an ending speech that hit me hard. I wish nothing but the absolute worst most disgusting things to happen to J.K. Rowling, but Prisoner of Azkaban still blows me away with everything they managed to pull off in it.
Ok for something resembling a more serious answer, I’ve always found it weird when things outside of a film itself affected people’s opinions on the film itself. Like I don’t care that an actor or director was caught saying something dumb or the people don’t speak out in support of something. If the film is good or bad, then that stuff shouldn’t affect it imo. I know films don’t exist in a bubble, but whenever I talk to people and they bring this up for why they do or don’t like something or think it’s over or underrated then I just get really confused.
Because art has meaning only through our emotional attachment. Literally anything can upset that balance.
I’d be willing to bet that you also have a tipping point.
Maybe you you don’t care if a director is charged with allegations of sexual impropriety. But what if it’s molesting a child? What if that child lived in your town? What if that child were your 15 year old niece? What if she was your 10 year old daughter? What if she were murdered?
At some point (hopefully long before your daughter is murdered!), most of us would probably form a personal opinion about this crazy-ass director who’s running around and committing heinous crimes, and it would skew our perception of their work. It’s just that the line in the sand is a bit different for all of us.
I just can’t see myself having that line considering film is a collaborative effort and I can’t bring myself to say this work is bad or whatever cause of what a singular person involved in it did. Woody Allen is a shit head, but Hannah and Her Sisters is an insanely well made film that had me feeling so many different things with an ending speech that hit me hard. I wish nothing but the absolute worst most disgusting things to happen to J.K. Rowling, but Prisoner of Azkaban still blows me away with everything they managed to pull off in it.