Wow, Challengers is the visual definition of a modern film. The rhythm of the scenes, the change of pace, the editing, the use of the score, the match camera, the variation of the time line. All of this merges into essentially two core concepts: Energy and aesthetics. And also answers the question of media recommendation. Definitely cinema, even if it doesn't look like it at first glance.
For me, the two protagonists, who tend to be acting nobodies, are the most likeable characters (and excellent actors, by the way), not the superstar Zendaya. However, she is the driving force behind the story and plays more of a femme fatale, emotionless, undercooled and success-orientated. A knife if you act symbiotically with her, a bomb if she slips to the opposite side? Not that, it's not a film noir after all. But a woman next to whom there is really no room, a great time with her will sooner or later be paid for with even greater pain. If the task is to function, it becomes the downfall that the other person is not understood, cannot be understood.
The screenplay is fantastic, the aforementioned pieces of the puzzle from different time periods come together perfectly to form a coherent story, simply a masterpiece. The escalation of events, i.e. What is really at stake in the final challenge and how much, sparks both suspense and drama in a rousing synchronised pace. There is a message that everyone can take away for themselves. Only success is attractive? Friendship means mountains and valleys! Bros before Hos!?
A really great film experience, and anyone who says otherwise probably has no idea. Or has been caught on the wrong foot. Electro-sound allergy, overlength fatigue or the fact that Guadagnino naturally can't resist constantly anayising everything again?
For me, the two protagonists, who tend to be acting nobodies, are the most likeable characters (and excellent actors, by the way), not the superstar Zendaya. However, she is the driving force behind the story and plays more of a femme fatale, emotionless, undercooled and success-orientated. A knife if you act symbiotically with her, a bomb if she slips to the opposite side? Not that, it's not a film noir after all. But a woman next to whom there is really no room, a great time with her will sooner or later be paid for with even greater pain. If the task is to function, it becomes the downfall that the other person is not understood, cannot be understood.
The screenplay is fantastic, the aforementioned pieces of the puzzle from different time periods come together perfectly to form a coherent story, simply a masterpiece. The escalation of events, i.e. What is really at stake in the final challenge and how much, sparks both suspense and drama in a rousing synchronised pace. There is a message that everyone can take away for themselves. Only success is attractive? Friendship means mountains and valleys! Bros before Hos!?
A really great film experience, and anyone who says otherwise probably has no idea. Or has been caught on the wrong foot. Electro-sound allergy, overlength fatigue or the fact that Guadagnino naturally can't resist constantly anayising everything again?
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