I think it’s hard to appreciate something once I start disrespecting the author. My favourite director, Kusturica, ended up a Putin lackey and since then I’ve lost the motivation to see his works.

Not that I would condemn anyone else for watching, just that his movies died a bit for me.

And if something like turns out to have been made by a bad person, I retroactively secretly hated it all along.

Death of the author means you separate the art from the artist, and sometimes it also means you wish they were dead

I has this happen with the fifth element. I found out Luc Besson is a pedophile who has gotten multiple young girls pregnant. Including a 15 year old he started seeing when she was 13, who he left when she turned 21. The movie is so different knowing about him and his views & it really changes how i watch the movie. Its no longer a fun feel good movie for me. Especially because two of his young wives star in the film.

It’s sort of frustrating to me when someone says they liked something and immediately someone just says “blah person involved is an abuser.” It feels so smug.