Idk I just want a yearning romance that borders on bloodthirsty, that doesn't seem like too much to ask

tennis also known as gay sex

the weak interpretation of Challengers is that it's a story of two men in love and unable to be together because of internalized homophobia, somehow leaving out the incendiary antiheroine whose presence dominates much of the plot and character development

the more interesting (and imo accurate) interpretation of Challengers is that we are watching two people come to terms with their mutual love and passion for someone who they've both been in denial of needing, which does NOT negate the way that they need each other and relate to each other... and that is to say, I think that Challengers deeply underlines both coming to terms with bisexuality (for Art) and coming to terms with loving two people and getting different things from them (for both Art and Tashi)

(tbh I think Patrick gets both of these things early on)

anyway Challengers has an HEA if you read it right

me when cinematic parallels

Art spitting his gum into Tashi’s hand and then them showing Art spitting his gum into Patrick’s hand when they were younger was fantastic

Art spitting his gum into Tashi’s hand and then them showing Art spitting his gum into Patrick’s hand when they were younger was fantastic

A rundown of pithy pending Letterboxd reviews I have for Challengers (2024) d. Luca Guadanino

This is the "I Don't Dance" sequence from High School Musical 2 on crack cocaine

Is this what Lorde was talking about when she said "let's go down to the tennis court so we can talk it out like yeah"?

On all levels except physical, those people were having SEX on that tennis court

In my sophomore year of college, the professor of my Dada and Surrealism class insisted that anything, (in this case, a truck,) could be interpreted as a phallus if you try hard enough. Using this perspective has made watching movies 1000000x times more enjoyable. Case and point: that churro scene.

Checkov's "I fucked your wife" ball to racket move my beloved

challengers is so good i don't understand if art and patrick are like that bc they had gay sex or bc they didn't.

the mouth open waiting for his turn …. He’s so pathetic I need him so bad

i’m so glad that everyone is taking a notice to my man mike faist, like where yall been at??? late to the party.

tashi’s character is seriously so layered… like the way she is literally the game changer. when she met patrick and art, and then made them make out and stuff… she changed the entire way they play tennis; they end up playing for her & become competitive with each other in a way they never were before & then whole plot ends up revolving around and going back to the way tashi changed their dynamic.?!,&/&7,9

Challengers seems like some spicy harmless bisexual fun until you realize and understand Tashi's game was using both Art and Patrick to live vicariously through cause she lost her ability to play tennis, for Patrick, his game was the love he had for his best friend and for Art, the love he had for a woman that never loved him back.

patrick talking about art probably

rip patrick zweig you would’ve loved good luck babe by chappell roan

officially declaring myself Team Art Donaldson‼️

happy holidays to these pictures of mike faist specifically

jackieshauna in march 2023, saltburn in november 2023, challengers in april 2024…it has been THEE 12 months of Toxic Homoerotic Doomed Best Friendships