tennis is a conversation (subtext: tennis is FUCKING): a thread for luca guadagnino’s CHALLENGERS

Or having fun! (Not that jacking off and having fun are mutually exclusive.) I enjoyed it in the moment, it was in keeping with the dizziness of the whole thing.

(Not that jacking off and having fun are mutually exclusive.

on ILX I guess they are

every camera choice must serve a narrative function

but it's also one of the last shots of a tennis exchange, and the tension has been building over the whole movie to this point, so yeah i'd say it serves a narrative purpose, given that these two are only communicating their totally repressed love for each other through the medium of a tennis ball. why am i arguing with someone who hasn't seen the movie

the audience i saw this with were audibly enjoying themselves throughout the movie but they really lost it during that scene

every camera choice must serve a narrative function

YES. That function may be "disruption, because narrative coherence is a bourgeois construct," but every shot in a movie must carry meaning, whether textual or subtextual.

but it's also one of the last shots of a tennis exchange, and the tension has been building over the whole movie to this point, so yeah i'd say it serves a narrative purpose, given that these two are only communicating their totally repressed love for each other through the medium of a tennis ball.

So it's a cumshot? Why didn't you say so? That, I get.

Do they love each other? I'm not sure. They'd fuck each other blue, yeah. It's all in the game.

yeah i think i meant to type "repressed longing"

I know this is small fry, but, god, to watch a mainstream movie reeking of sex and whose camera kept leering at totally willing male actors was such a trip.

It is obvious subtext needed to be text, ergo, the final shot of the movie would have to involve one ramming a churro down the other's throat since they left that plot point hanging uh wait.

The churro scene is great because it's so on the nose, it's like a porn movie parody and it's hilarious.

down to the powdered sugar on the nose