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Christopher Robin (2018) dir. Marc Forster

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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

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CHALLENGERS (2024, dir. Luca Guadagnino) is a film that doesn't root for any of its three main characters and isn't concerned about who gets to win in the end. it's written and shot like a long tennis rally that doesn't let up; nobody is willing to drop the ball, but everybody's anticipating the moment it finally happens. it's obsessed with the back-and-forth while simultaneously desperate for a release, and good god does every character get to have theirs in the end.

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art having all the athletic qualities that make him the husband (drive, will, humility) and patrick having all the athletic prowess that make him the mistress (talent, charm, ego), which of course means together they make the perfect doubles team

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ok ignore how shitty this gif is i made it in two seconds but like oh my god are you guys seeing this. audibly went oh my god out loud in the theater

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reasons why the love triangle in challengers serves cunt:

it’s a real triangle

the hate and love and lust volley between the three of them the whole time at dizzying speeds.

sexual tension is so insanely off the charts you can feel it in your mouth

zendaya

each of them is deeply jealous of the other two, in ways personal or professional or both. tashi had her career cut short before its prime. while patrick and art are still known as tennis players she will never be. art’s whole life is an exercise in repression and he knows he’ll never have that chaotic, prodigal spark that tashi and patrick share. patrick’s ex best friend and ex girlfriend got married and rich together while he’s sleeping in his car. they’re all longing for what the others have.

ZENDAYA

tennis as sex my beloved

in an early sceenplay, when art and tashi hook up for the first time, he can’t get hard until she coaches him while jerking him off. in the movie, patrick tells the story of how he taught art how to masturbate for the first time. haters will say you can’t have cinematic parallels between scenes that were never technically filmed but they haven’t watched the version of this movie in my head

did i mention zendaya is there?!?!

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There is a sort of constant battle between the two of them to the degree that they are fighting, but they are taking care of one another. When the sugar goes on the cheek of Patrick, Art takes it off with his hand in a very nice gesture of kindness -- and very intimate, I would say. But at the same time, they are really tense. And I think it’s about being jealous of one another, but at the same time wanting one another.

Challengers (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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CHALLENGERS (2024) Dir. Luca Guadagnino

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challengers written by justin kuritzkes

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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.

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GOOD OMENS 1.06 • "The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives"

+ bonus

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Made a bunch of stickers! ✨

AfternoonFika

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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert