We're All Going to the World's Fair

The best depiction in fiction to date of that feeling of exploring the strangest corners of the internet, and friendships based on anonymity. Reminded me especially of my first years online - Animorphs fanfiction, failed attempts at Habbo Hotel knockoffs, and other sites and people I haven’t spoken to in twENTY YEARS OH MY GOD

There's a few movies that I've seen which understand the specific loneliness and disaffection of being online. Kairo was one I could instantly name drop and now there is We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. Like Kairo, its premise, while not incorrect, doesn't paint the right picture of the movie: Kairo is a movie about internet ghosts, but that's just a stepping-off point to the apocalypse of the self through technology. It follows then that We’re All Going to… more

Obviously it takes a lethargic shitshow of a movie to document the lethargic shitshow that's modern life, especially (but not exclusively) for kids and teens in the last 2 years. We have yet to see the worst consequences of this crap, perhaps it's best to quickly become a therapist. Easy money.

Accurately and effectively depicts a specific kind of cringey loneliness that manifests itself through cultish devotion to a willful falsehood. I’m not really sure what it’s trying to say about it, though, which caused this to feel quickly repetitive to me. It has some intriguingly evocative moments, but I couldn’t quite crack this one. I’m looking forward to reading more about it, though!

An interesting film that evokes a certain type of feeling very well, that of utmost loneliness when accompanied only by a computer screen.