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Johnbobb posted...

We're All Going to the World's Fair

9.5/10

A near perfect kind of movie to me. Encapsulates and explores a lot of moods and themes at once. That terminally online, lonely, isolated feeling. Nasty viral internet trends that consistently and tragically ruin kids' lives with disturbing pedophilia ties. Even arrested development & the feeling of losing a parent are explored with traumatic realism. We're All Going to the World's Fair is unflinchingly dark, but it's not depraved. It's a movie with a story that any one of us could be unwittingly involved in at any time with just one bad day. The comfort of Casey's bedroom where most of the film takes place is a false safety while life moves on in the background with a father who detached long ago; the World's Fair is internet escapism for Casey at its finest and most targeted, perfectly suited to her psychological damage when she needed it most. Casey asserts that her videos were not real, but does she really believe that? Do we as an audience really believe that? In the end, it really doesn't matter. They were always just an ephemeral distraction anyway. What Casey really wanted was somewhere to belong. And whether she found that or not, we can all agree that how she did it is not the most healthy way of finding that community. It forces us to confront the thin boundary between the digital persona we craft and our true selves.

The film does not go out of its way to explain anything really. Its power lies in its bizarre allure and atmosphere, its weird flashes of body horror, and the terrific lead of Anna Cobb. It's a film as haunting as you personally make it out to be, and that's where I always find the best horror to be at.