Challengers Ending Explained | Who Actually Won?
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2024
- Challengers Ending Explained
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In this video, we explain the ending of Luca Guadagnino's film, 'Challengers,' which stars Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O'Connor. Written by Justin Kuritzkes. The plot follows a professional tennis champion (Mike Faist) who plots a comeback with the help of his wife (Zendaya), a former tennis prodigy who retired after an injury, as he goes up against another player (Josh O'Connor), who also happens to be his former best friend and wife's former lover.
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Interesting. I saw the ending as more of a triumph for the two boys than I did Tashi. Tashi wanted power and she wanted her husband to win and that's all she cared about. The two friends embraced each other at the end, not caring about the match, but instead wanting their friendship back that Tashi ruined.
Art was a catalyst for that ruining. So I think it’s a combination of all their faults that caused it
I agree. Patrick basically signaled to Art that he had sex with his wife by mimicking his serve. Patrick did this intentionally to light a fire underneath Art and rather than throwing the match like Tashi wanted him to, he wanted him to win off the strength of his own capabilities, not giving him an easy win. He realized that while Tashi was his coach and in large part the fire behind his career/success, she was also holding him back. By showing Tashi’s true colors, they’re able to realize how she got in the way of their relationship and Art was able to overcome whatever hold she’s had on him since forever.
@@Nooooooooooooooooooooo7913 And he promised him a win at the Junior Open.
@@Nooooooooooooooooooooo7913 I think they all need each other. They’re all searching for that feeling they shared in that hotel room. All they needed to do from the start was to be a throuple. So by the end of film they all rejoin again.
I think Tashi secretly knew that Patrick was going to be at the tournament and that’s why she entered Art in because she wanted him to get back into winning mode and she knew that them seeing each other again would get him fired up and want to keep playing tennis. Even though she wanted Art to have “no distractions”, she remembered how happy he was playing with Patrick and she thought that reuniting him with his best friend would help him find his passion for tennis again.
Yeah, that itself is not as weird as fucking him behind his back. she had her own crazy plans lol. I think all three of them needed each other for sure
My interpretation of the film was that Patrick loved Art, Art loved Tashi, and Tashi loved Tennis. There is no villain, but they’re all playing the game each with their own motive. I kinda saw Tashi and Patrick as wolves and Art as their pup. The queer subtleties in this film really highlight that Patrick was in it for Art, and he could get Tashi, he could get Art. But, naively I think Art wanted Tashi more than anything which lead him getting into both their heads about each other and ended sabotaging both of their lives. I think Tashi was frustrated with Patrick because she wanted a “fan” and he himself wanted to be his own boss, I think both Tashi and Patrick wanted Art for that reason, for him to be their biggest “fan”, and I think Art deep down came to realize he was comfortable with being a fan. Tashi deep down didn’t love Art tho and I think she started to realize that his life wasn’t there without Patrick. Which is why I really think deep down Tashi didn’t reach out to Patrick for herself, but for Patrick to bring back the life in Art. I think that’s why she mentions being a “home wrecker” twice when discussing Art and Patrick, because they were a partnership even if they weren’t entirely aware (mainly Art). What’s so impactful about the final scene to me is I think Art finally comes to realize Patrick is what he’s been missing, for himself and Tashi. I think in the end the three of them stick together, in what way I’m not sure, but I think it’s a realization for the three of them that the highlight of what made tennis what it was for them was each other.
Completely agree with everything you said. Their dynamic only works when the 3 of them are together. The boys have a breakthrough when they finally decided to play tennis for themselves and not as a mean to win Tashi over, which is what Tashi wanted all along.
This is a great story. Very complex and at the same time very understandable. My favorite part was the ending. These three are a team, a family. They need each other. Now that they’re all back together, Patrick can get the guidance he needs from Tashi so that he can get his career in a better place, Art can move forward to the U.S. Open, Patrick and Art can be best friends again, and all three of them can go back to being a family again.
I respect these characters for being brave enough to understand each other and overcome their obstacles.
And Tashi can continue to live vicariously through Patrick since he wants to start a professional career and Art's is ending. (that's what she gets out of the reunion as well)
@@lauralovee17Patrick & Art are the same age, Patrick can't having his own career only now... And I'm not sure it's what he wanted... More like he wanted to find his relationship w Art
I think Patrick ends up losing on purpose. At the end, Patrick begins to jump up until he realizes that he will collide with Art so he throws the racket and catches Art. I think that shows how Patrick ultimately prioritizes Art over the tennis match, and doesn’t want to break Art. The platonic love between the boys is palpable and endearing.
I dont think this love is purely platonic, it's shown thru the film as Patrick goes for Art, touching him, getting him closer, feedib him, tsking his gum (the same way Tashi takes it years later) , its constant tension between them and no awkward situation after this passionate kiss they share. And obviously they both are aroused. For Tashi? for each other?maybe both. This threesome is amazing as it was said above, they complete each other, to make the best version of themselves. I wish it was the scene after credits when they enter the hotel and Patrick wants to go to his room but Tashi nods at him to join her and Art. That would be perfect
How could you watch the entire movie and then say the love they have for each is platonic. Oh brother.
Don't think it's platonic lol but otherwise, yes that's what happens in the end.
Art knew Patrick would lose the point to break his fall. His last bit of manipulation.
I knew he was going to switch his serve.
You and everybody else. It wasn’t that clever of a movie just offensive.
Reading these comments I see a lot of people got different things out of the ending, and I think that is really cool. The three of them have a very complex dynamic. What I got out of the ending was that all three of them rediscovered their passion and fire both for tennis and each other. They all were dealing with complacency in their own way and isolating themselves, and it was rotting them from the inside. They need each other, they need the chaos, they need to be chasing something. .....and they for sure slept in the same hotel room that night.
I like that, your version of the end!
YES, this is it. It’s a complex, slow burn love story. They’re not happy without each other, pairing up isn’t doing it for them. She says in the beginning that each game of tennis is like a relationship, and the end is the first three way game they’ve ever played (she’s not on the court, but she’s absolutely playing) and it’s so electric they finally know!
I get that Art’s jealousy was the catalyst for the drive of the film. I do have to see it again regarding the ending. Art also told Tashi that he was going retire soon no matter what happens which would be okay with Patrick but not okay with Tashi. At this point the unexpected leap over the net by Art felt like he was now able to give his heart fully to Patrick, his true friend in life.
The fact that Patrick still wore Tashi's shirt was telling. Patrick and Art were both jealous. Itbthe beginning you saw Tashi give Art more attention in the first meeting and I think she realized how Patrick was the alpha of the two.
Patrick was obsessed with Art, Art was obsessed with Tashi, and Tashi was obsessed with tennis. The three loved each other, and all four had a relationship where they all needed each piece.
I like this theory
I don’t think any of them were the villain either. This film just felt like a lot of emotion and a hard time expressing it but tennis was used to communicate in the end. I really liked and hated all three characters at different points of the movie. I loved the sound track. Some moments were loud but I think that just represents the overwhelming feeling in the moment. Easily one of the top movies i’ve seen this year.
For me Art and Patrick chose each other over Tashi, over tennis. I dont think their love is purely platonic, it's shown thru the film as Patrick goes for Art, touching him, getting him closer, feeding him, taking his gum (the same way Tashi takes it years later) , it's constant tension between them and no awkward situation after that passionate kiss they shared. And obviously they both are aroused. For Tashi? for each other? maybe both. It's hinted thru the film that Patrick is bisexual - he got girls and boys on Tinder, he said explicitly that he would let Tashi f*ck him with a tennis racket. He's open. But mostly and deeply, most of the time, not only on physical level, he's into Art.
This threesome is amazing as it was said above, they complete each other, to make the best version of themselves. I wish it was the scene after credits when they enter the hotel and Patrick wants to go to his room but Tashi nods at him to join her and Art. That would be perfect
I think in the end she might have decided to back away, the final shot of her is like her accepting they don't belong to her. But they belong to each other.
I think the silent conversation between them in the final match is quite significant, it's like they make up during the course of the match.
Actually Art didn't win because he touched the net I the the end is more open ended
i dont think art won....he actually made a violation going over the net....it was left ambiguous ....my opinion 😊
Where does it show at the end that Art wins? I thought it was left ambiguous?
It ended the way it ended because at that point the 2 best friends understood that it didn’t matter and wasn’t important who actually won the match. At this point they finally understood that their relationship was the true victory (whether it was platonic or sexual).
@michaelbrockman5742 he won bro 😂 you could see the ball go over clear as day
@somersfamily It was only the first point of the tie break game when the games were 6 games each. In a tie break is won when someone gets to 7 points with at least a 2 point margin (i.e. 7 - 5). The movie stopped after only 1 point so we don't know who won the match. In the context of the film who actually won didn't matter. The guys found their friendship again was the point.
@@somersfamilyTouching the net and crossing over is a point penalty against Art, so he lost the point. The movie does not show who won.
Exactly. I don't think it's clear who won. I don't think it matters.
The thought of the daughter possibly being Patrick's cross my mind when i was watching the movie. But i didnt want to think ill of Tashi. Now i see that the seed of doubt is part of this movie, haha. In the end I realized that perhaps that doesn't even matter. The three of them need each other to be the best version of themselves. A bit of toxic thrupple but a thrupple no less.
No the last time they had made was 11 years ago and the daughter is 6 so it's not Patrick's
@@kellykelly8206 It was 8 years before, in Atlanta.
@@ericamacs3875 oow maby i must see the movie again 😂
@@kellykelly8206 well it is quite frenetic lol
I didn't catch the daughter's age, I have to admit that the jumping in time did confuse me at times, good catch. I'll definitely have to watch the movie again, at some point.
Art is the snake! Had he NOT planted seeds of doubt in Tashi AND Mike, she would not have broken up with Patrick or had her injury. LOVED this movie!
Art was definitely being manipulative and intentionally crushed Tashi and Patricks relationship after her injury, but I think the seeds were also already there. Patrick and Tashi were too headstrong to be together all the time. Art understands her a little better, but is also too meek and fixated on her. She loves and hates both of them for the opposite reasons. Thats why she couldnt resist patrick or leave art, they both fill a need for her.
@@Irivesper Except he really caused her injury if you think about it because 1st he told her that Patrick didn't love her, then told Patrick she was seeing others. Then they argued (with the seeds Art planted in their heads) before her match and her injury ends her lifelong dreams. A snake. lol
@dpirene1 Did Tashi really injure herself due to the argument she had with Patrick or was it a fluke injury on a tough play?
@@jasonleetaiwan IMO she wasn't focused on her tennis due to the argument w/Patrick (which Art caused).
Tashi's great love is tennis, but her drive to win makes them all realize that the need each other for the sake of the game.
When the boys reconcile at the end, it feels like a win.
When Tashi kept saying to art you can beat him about Patrick. I don’t think she was talking about tennis. I think she was talking about the realtionship, yes he can beat Patrick but only if he lets out his rage and jealously. Which so apparent when she started seeing Patrick after art lost their match. However, I think it’s rare for art to win, I think art was never working hard enough at tennis. But art tapped into his jealously outside of the game and choose to beat Patrick at getting the girl. Especially for the fact that he was outwardly pursuing tashi when she was with Patrick.
Art, the most cuckhold character I've seen in a long time. He didn't want Tashi, he wanted Patrick and she was his means to an end. A very long means but I wouldn't be shocked if both Art and Patrick dumped Tashi post-match, and finally got together. It's like in bi adult movies where the guy has to have a woman there in order to indulge his most basic instinct. Art kept sabotaging their relationship for a reason.
Yeah, Art is jealous of Patrick and Tashi in the beginning. But the question is, which one of them did he want? I think deep down, he wanted Patrick.
I'm glad someone else saw what I saw.
i thought pat was more skll but a little lazy art was a harder working,
the sauna was in atlanta
The sauna was right before the final game between them at the country club; they were both preparing for the match. Atlanta - and what happened between Tashi and Patrick in Atlanta - was years before.
1- Art had low self-esteem, he knew that his wife did not love him, when he tells her "I love you" and she only answers: "I know", Tashi sees it as a $ project, in the film it is clear that Art did have some success and was doing well financially when he asked her to be his coach, there was a reason they had advertising contracts. 2- Patrick is wild, he just wants to live and Tashi couldn't tame him like he did with Art and I think that's why he still loves him, even though he treats him like shit and spits on him 3- At the end of the movie when Art almost jumps on top of the net, there is a confusing gesture that seems like he wants to hit Patrick with his racket and then the hug, and on the other hand Tashi screams and his face is rather angry when he watches them hug, it is as if he does not want anyone to win, let's remember that her love is Tennis and that both of them lose was not in her plans, she stayed with the winner, and now Art and Patrick make peace
Just saw the film and I think Zendaya screaming C'mon at the end was showing that she won or got what she wanted. Because she screamed the same thing in the beginning of the film when she won the match, not when she lost. So she played both of them?
Who actually won? They all did, I'm their own ways. Tashi finally got some good fuckin tennis. Art and Patrick got their friendship back. And the viewer won because this movie is masterfully made. The Whiplash of tennis movies.
Doesn't anyone besides me think Tashi is quite the cold little manipulator? She may love tennis but she loves herself more.
I think it was masterpiece but messy
Maybe the injury was the karma for being a manipulator but instead of becoming a better person she continues being a bad person instead of learning a new skill.
I need to see it again because did they actually finish the tie break? There was match point, then the tie break started, at that point Patrick told Art, and they have a great game. But isn't Art just winning that point?
I agree about how great that shot is where Zendaya isn't bothering to watch the game and all the other heads are turning back and forth.
I thought Luca had two American films? This and Bones and All. Call Me By Your Name is Italian, and also has a bit of French money, hence French and Italian dialogue and I think Suspiria is a European film also, maybe even German.
But i think this one feels very European. And also looking forward to Queer.
Art lost the game because he touched the net with his body. Patrick won.
But Art did not win, in fact we do not know who won the game at the end.
He did
@@jeniserobinson8585He didn’t necessarily win - they had just started the tie breaker. They had many more points to play after that one to determine the winner. We didn’t even see who won that point let alone the match. The director and writer of the film has said as much.
@@curalove yeah i’ve been sayin the same thing we don’t even know who win the point, also can you send me a link where the director said that please
Yes I thought they had started the tie break
But what confuses me is the crowd, as if it's over.?
Also surely you kind of forfeit the game touching the net like that? You can't go and embrace your opposing player at the net and then carry on lol.
@@jeniserobinson8585 No, the makers even said that they deliberately left it ambiguous and they don't make it clear who wins.
How much did Zendeya make from this film
She’s got a producer credit on this film so prob a lot of damn money. I wouldn’t be surprised if she invested in it as well
For me this movie is very disappointing, especially after so many enthusiastic reviews. Boring, pretentious script about unlikeable characters I don't care about. I liked only the pulsating and energetic score.
Meh😂
I think the boys were bisexual. 😅
Overrated, very boring movie.