Some parts were disgusting, pointless, or just genuinely distasteful. It's visually beautiful and there's a lot you can interpret and read into, but it's hard to take a movie philosophically seriously when it has such disgusting treatment of animals 👎. I would've rated it much higher otherwise.
It just has a general vibe of pretentiousness in any of those shocking scenes, in that the director feels he can cross ethical lines for his le vision.