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

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

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!

If movies do exist outside of what happens purely on the screen this was one of the first movies that I felt too old when the takes started coming in. Usually that happens around ironic reclamations but this was more about pathos. About our new digital age. People felt a kindred connection but I’ve never had an internet life like what was displayed. Feels kinda retrograde in its analysis of the net to me. Someone isn’t who they seem on the digital highway??? I’m shocked. Needed something more.

Conceptually strong but its meandering nature makes large parts of it an endurance test.

Touch grass the movie

Modern day Frankenstein

Schoenbrun engages so deeply in the feeling of being online—more specifically, the feeling of being a young woman online—that an enervating, corrosive loneliness hits harder than any life-threatening fear. It’s a generational character study disguised as a sprucing-up of a Paranormal Activity-style DIY shocker.

Schoenbrun is great at creating at atmosphere. Watching their movies is like being transported to a different yet familiar, nostalgic, magical place

This screenplay was a few drafts shy of something really special. Glad I stayed with it, though, because you don’t realize how good Anna Cobb really is until around the halfway mark. (The streaming services putting this in the Halloween section is a dirty trick; this is a drama with a soupçon of suspense.)

I clapped! I clapped when May Leitz came on!

I can't say I found any of it effectively creepy or that the material didn't feel stretched extremely thin, but it's certainly unique, and Schoenbrun definitely has a distinctive voice as a filmmaker

Dig the vibes and the pacing, and it’s an interesting idea but it kinda feels like it goes nowhere in the second half, and some amateurish acting and dorky dialogue holds it back. (I was surprised to find out the bald guy is a professional actor.) A cool first feature but certainly a first feature, hopefully this filmmaker has a future

Intriguing but ultimately very unsatisfying film. I kept wanting it to be more, or maybe just something else. There's some interesting stuff here about social media and onlineness, etc, but in the end there are few answers (which is okay in some cases but was kind of annoying here) and a pretty slight plot. Interesting at times, but not really for me.

I uh... can't really tell why this was tagged as a horror movie. The protagonist rips her teddy bear apart at some point, that might be it. It's boring as hell.

@Darren: 100% - this feels like a movie made for, and probably more appealing to, folks whose lives and interactions have been shaped and guided by their lives online (as opposed to my online life, which more or less solely involves writing reviews on Criticker!) – far too puzzlingly abstract and esoteric to be truly satisfying, and one-note and superficial in terms of what it’s trying to say. Cobb is terrific though, and she offers some genuinely unnerving moments.

How to disappear completely. About being lonely and online all the time, meeting strange people, recording videos that will get 45 views -- and engaging in an online RPG that might or might not change the way you feel. It has some genuinely creepy moments and others that just feel silly. Guess I expected more of the creepypasta stuff than the philosophical drama, but that's ok.

Playsfakewell+Loolhersong/dancescreamthenbacktoit

This creeped the hell out of me.

While the film does well in addressing internet culture and features a strong performance from Anna Cobb, it falls flat in execution and fails to keep audiences engaged.

"You know this is just a game, right?" The first hour of this is stunning, with Schoenbrun and Cobb taking us to a very uncomfortable place of loneliness and wishing for a, any, release or transformation. I'm not sure the ending quite works, even though maybe that's the point.

I couldn't get through this movie. Slight knocks me out every time.

The pacing became unwatchable for me. I just wasn't interested in anyone enough to crush through the final 30 minutes.

A muted picture that's so saturated with the authenticity of strange, anonymous corners of an early 2000s internet, that it manages to be heart-rending despite very little happening. It taps into that brief, liminal era on the edge of screen-ubiquity and a lonely, cold reality that the kids that were neither Gen X nor Millenials came of age in. But as was the case with the overwhelming majority of tales that began online, there was never any catharsis, just a lingering feeling of unease.

Very unsettling in more ways than one.

The idea is very much interesting. The execution is very much not.

A very special film.

hello darkness my old friend...