Interesting viewpoint. I guess my viewpoint is: I strictly focus on the work of art (film, music, art, etc.) & not on the background or current behavior of the artiste. For some reason, I am able to separate the two.
Usually I am. I mean, who cares if the guy gets traffic tickets, right?
But certain behaviors cross a personal line for me. Child abuse would be one of those lines, as would murder. I think Cosby crossed lines for me and I can't listen to his comedy anymore. That's mostly because I probably wouldn't laugh like I used to back before all his stuff broke in the news.
Also, mine is not an unusual viewpoint (of not adding to an artist's coffers while he lives). It's mentioned by several folks in the documentary, and I had already arrived there myself before they said it. Having said this, though, it's not like I'm going to go out and rent
Love and Death the day Allen dies, either. I have a feeling it would no longer hold the same place in my heart that it held when it first came out. My interest in all things Allen has definitely waned since this whole thing broke in the 1990s. This documentary mostly just gave me the information I needed to back up a choice I had mostly already made.
Now...having said all THAT...
I am not a person who boycotts companies over every little thing, either. I mean, if I tried to boycott every company or product that did something I didn't agree with in principle, I'd have to live off the grid and grow my own food, make my own clothing, and somehow make my own electricity. And what would I do about the internet?
So I admit I may not be completely consistent in my own decisions. But since Allen was someone whose movies I truly LOVED back in the day, believing what I now do about his behavior just taints all of his movies for me. Possibly because so many of them involve him acting like a character who is so much like Allen himself.