I'm not against art films, but when there's an obsession over theme, technique, or personality, I'm probably out. Good art is scandalous and daring without need

I'm not against art films, but when there's an obsession over theme, technique, or personality, I'm probably out. Good art is scandalous and daring without needing any provenance or context. The Banksyism is: "comfort to the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." What matters to the general audience is what is on their plate, not the difficulty in or constraints on making the sausage. If someone wants to go the direction of say Spike Lee, then that's a deliberate choice to put art above chasing dollars, risking becoming the archetype of the starving artist and possibly their wide-appeal legacy. They're neither good nor bad, but different roads needing different driving styles.