, the new film from director Luca Guadagnino, is a tennis movie in every sense of the word. Except that, it’s really not. Despite the fact that the film centres around the sport, highlighting the grunts, backhands and — most importantly — the sweat, as Tashi Duncan , Patrick Zweig and Art Donaldson battle it out on the court, the sport is really only an avenue through which the three characters express their love for one another.
We see this early on in the film. While attending Stanford University together, Art and Tashi sit down for a post-tennis practice lunch in the dining hall. Innocuous at first, their convo quickly turns from tennis to love, or lack thereof, with Art informing Tashi that his longtime BFF and her current boyfriend Patrick isn’t in love with her. Tashi tells him off as only Zendaya can; shutting Art down with a succinct and curt AF: “What makes you think I want someone to be in love with me?”.
It’s telling then, that years later in Atlanta, the trio would bump into each other while Patrick is wearing the “I Told Ya” t-shirt; the literal and figurative embodiment of Tashi and Art’s problems and desires combining into one.More than a decade after first meeting and now in 2019, we see this dynamic reversed when, the night before the big Challengers final match, a 31-year-old Tashi meets up with Patrick to ask him to throw the game in order to boost Art’s confidence.
Not only does the sharing of clothing, and Tashi donning the pieces in pivotal moments, signal her own internal division — always thinking about one man while in conversation or a relationship with the other — but the interconnectedness of the three. Even in these intimate moments one-on-one with Tashi, both Patrick and Art are never fully out of frame, brought into the scene — and the love triangle — via a piece of clothing.
It may be new info to Tashi et al, but this reality — like Patrick and Art’s love for each other — was there all along, all in the form of a T-shirt.
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