A Ping-Pong-Specific Review of ‘Marty Supreme’

In the beginning of Marty Supreme, our protagonist, Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), is a shoe salesman working at his uncle’s shop. A woman (Odessa A’zion) enters the store and says she left her old shoes after she bought a new pair, and she asks Marty to help search for them in the back. Away from everyone’s view, the two of them start hooking up before the opening credits, during which we witness, in surprisingly microscopic detail, a swarm of sperm racing to fertilize an egg. Then, the egg morphs into [checks notes] a ping-pong ball.