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By Robert Scucci | Updated
A common feeling that has been shared on the Internet is that we are simultaneously more connected and isolated than ever, and We all go to the World Fair It is a dead representation of this idea. Having grown up reading urban myths and copypasts generated online in forums as something horrible, I was attracted to this film by Jane Schoenbrun because it explores the harmful effect that the Internet could have on adolescents when they are left without supervision.
In the 90s and early, my friends and I had access to shock websites like Rotten that traumatized us for life. We all go to the World Fair It takes that same type of energy to generation Z, but through the use of viral challenges that have their own unique set of consequences. Through the exploration of the film of our obsession to find the validation on the Internet, there is an underlying sadness when these emotional connections are based on superficial interactions that simply cannot replace real -life relationships.
I want to go to the World Fair
We all go to the World Fair It focuses on Casey (Anna Cobb), a live broadcast that decides that she wants to take the “world fair challenge.” While the rules of the game are mostly left to the viewer’s imagination, the basic premise is that if an online user says “I want to go to the World Fair” three times, his finger is punched, the blood is stained in the screen and watch a short video that is never seen by the audience but involves many flashing colors, they are now playing an interactive game with a community from other players who document how the game changes both their mental and physical state.
Casey, who lives a lonely life in his attic room, wants to desperately go through his own changes and find his audience through the world fair challenge. After watching a series of videos of other players demonstrating how they have changed since they started the challenge, Casey slides in a depression because its content is not generating points of view, and is not experiencing any real change of external forces. While fighting with his lack of online popularity, a user known as JLB (Michael J. Rogers) contacts her through Skype and tells him that he is in danger.
It focuses on the isolation of adolescents
Placing its main approach in the isolated daily life of Casey, We all go to the World Fair It shows how harmful Internet trends could be lonely teenagers fighting to find their own identity. In the case of Casey, he is depressed by the low audience of his videos. This low audience correlates directly with their behavior as a game, and their conversations with JLB have a legitimate effect in their psychological state, or at least encourage it to present increasingly deranged performances while trying to obtain views.
Expressing suicidal and homicidal thoughts as it deepens the fair challenge of the world, Casey’s videos trigger JLB, which may or may not be orchestrating the entire game, to get to it for concern because you do not want to see your friend online participate in Any unfortunate behavior. While it seems obvious that Casey is desperately trying to form a human connection through the viral trend, it is not very clear if the game itself is actually the reason for its changes in behavior, or if it simply leans in the premise , for what does not. Feel alone.
A psychological drama of the age of slow burns
Despite the heavy theme that We all go to the World Fair It covers, its estimated budget of $ 15,000 forces the audience to read between the lines. With little or no special effect, the tension is manifested through the point of view of the Casey website, and the discomfort that you will feel while watching this film comes from a place that is not necessarily tangible. Knowing how little this film occurred, I was completely impressed as possible suspense through the simple use of brilliant computer monitors and black light paint in a dark room that establishes the tone and mood.
The best way I can describe the emotions that We all go to the world Fair He is trying to evoke is the type of feeling you would have as a child when you were alone at home, none of your friends was close and you turned to the Internet to feel more than loneliness or boredom.
Between sequences that involve the live broadcasts of Casey, there are granulated shots of rainy suburbs during the winter months in which he is documenting in We all go to the World FairCreate a scenic backdrop that evokes feelings of despair despite the fact that most of these images are quite harmless in any other context.
Functioning as the first part of what is now known as the Screen trilogyYou can currently transmit We all go to the World Fair In Max, as well as its sequel, I saw the brightness of television. At the time of writing this article, details about the third installment are not yet known.
