Unpleasant and hypocritical

Well, I must say I'm a huge Greenaway fan. But some of his movies are really bad and Baby of Macon is one of those.
It seems like Greenaway is always walking on the line : he makes crude-beautiful-thought-provoking movies (The cook, the thief, perhaps best movie ever)... Or arrogant-over esthetisized-mind masturbating movies. Sadly, Baby of Macon is in the second category.
It just doesn't work this time, although I tried really hard.

At its best, it's interesting. Most of the time, it's just appealing and gives you a feeling of horror made beautiful and fascinating in a bad way.

I feel like it's bad to appeal to people's morbid imagination, even to get an interesting message accross. And it's even worse to make horrible things look beautiful in order to get a message accross.

In movies likes the Draughtman contract or in The cook the thief, horror and violence are tempered in many ways (violence is just implied, female characters give a meaning to it..), making it acceptable.

But I don't get this movie's point. Why make us feel bad ? What's the point denounciating people who watch ?

It has even a kind of hypocritical touch. I mean, when he eventually puts the dead body of the main characters legs wide open covered in blood just in front of us, isn't he saying like : Hey guys, you're also part of this? So he makes a movie for people to watch it - but he makes watchers feel like crap ?