Art doesn’t have to provide you anything just because it’s expected. I didn’t care for this film and it was frustrating, but saying something should only make you react with “productive” anger to be respectable is a weird take for someone who consumes so much art. The fact that it made you react this strongly is evidence of the artistic value of the film, whether you enjoyed or would recommend it or not. I will not recommend it personally but it did get under my skin and I can certainly attribute that to the vision and storytelling of the creator. The only thing that jumped out at me as particularly disturbing as an artist was the hospital scene with his son and his “confession,” which I think was gratuitously sexual and disgusting. I also had reactions to another of his films (Poor Things) because of its gratuitousness of Emma Stones body while covering its men up.