As I understand the course of events unfolding after the launch, there had been someone in the audience, whose name escapes me but who is evidently pleased to identify himself as a Batman scholar, who had been offended by Act of Faith and, as people in this branch of scholarship presumably do, he had advertised this fact on social media. In a message that I was shown, his objections to the film became more obvious when he described and summarised it as film about a woman who dresses in ‘slutty clothes’ and then commits suicide. Without wishing to labour the obvious, I fear that this gentleman may have understood the film too quickly. Quite why he should have done this is a question that I have more trouble over, but of that more presently.
Re-reading the Moore interview again, and finding more to be annoyed with*. But this bit above is quite wonderful, albeit potentially unintentionally. I kind of want Overly Polite Passive-Aggressive Alan Moore to have a regular column somewhere where he belittles those in everyday life.
(* A large part of what upsets me so is Moore’s seeming inability to accept criticism, never mind address it; instead, he prefers to deflect it or outright dismiss it out of hand. That, added to a tendency towards exaggeration and obviously faux humility leaves him as a frustrating subject for all but the already converted. I saw someone compare him to latter-day Morrissey today; it’s a worryingly apt choice.)