From 'Challengers' to 'Call Me By Your Name,' Food Is Never Just Food In a Luca Guadagnino Film
The Big Picture Two friends snack on churros in Challengers . You know the scene, it’s a hot and horny moment, without anything explicit happening — or is there? When characters eat in movies, their meals can be heightened with crisp sound design as drinks are poured, and salivating close-ups over sizzling food. Besides looking delicious, meals can represent deeper themes of the story at hand. The Menu serves up gourmet dining as a revenge fantasy enacted by the irate food service industry.
In A Bigger Splash , the second chapter in the Desire trilogy, Guadagnino captures an uglier portrayal of preparing a meal. It’s seen when Harry , the ex of famous rock star Marianne , arrives uninvited to her vacation with her boyfriend. Harry’s invasive personality is everywhere, such as when he takes over the kitchen, slicing into a fish and digging his hands inside to pull out the organs. This preparation of a meal is nowhere as magnificent as what Antonio does in I Am Love.
In Guadagnino's next picture, 2018's Suspiria, food isn’t given the same beauty. Like what the filmmaker did in A Bigger Splash, there is an ugly side to food when it’s used to help make the supernatural horror believable. Having Susie eat chicken too, just served differently, hints at the later reveal that she isn’t an outsider and she will soon take her rightful place as the coven’s leader. Before that plot twist, the mundane dinner of chicken wings depicts a power dynamic between the two women. This ominous focus on food in a Guadagnino film goes more extreme when cannibalism is turned into an emotionally charged, tragic love story.
The film reaches a horrific ending that is heartbreaking. Maren consumes a wounded Lee, per his wish, in a different ending from the book to keep Maren’s future ambiguous. It’s oddly tender when a dying Lee begs Maren to eat him. She finally does, biting into his chest, causing Lee to scream out in pain, but the scene is not shown as violently as the other attacks. Music takes over, shutting off Lee’s cries. Instead of seeing the flesh ripped off, Maren’s face covers what her mouth is doing.
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