{"id":14256,"date":"2021-06-06T21:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14256"},"modified":"2021-06-06T20:42:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:42:34","slug":"were-all-going-to-the-worlds-fair-2021-jane-schoenbrun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14256","title":{"rendered":"We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021, Jane Schoenbrun)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casey is eating string cheese in the opening scene, says she’s taking the World’s Fair Challenge. Repeats the words, stabs herself with a pin, then hits play on a video which based on the reflections on her face appears to be the end of Lux Aeterna<\/a><\/em>. Alex G music and Albert Birney video game animation. Abandoned strip mall aesthetic when she goes outside. Multiple creepypasta and Paranormal Activity<\/em> references. “I love horror movies and I thought it might be cool to try actually living in one.” She’s using Photo Booth app for video recording, I don’t think that’s a thing? Sleep?walks to the shed and admires daddy’s rifle, then watches ASMR videos. Commenter JLB sends her a laughing-clown twisted picture of herself, claims to be “nobody” just wants to help her. We soon see JLB, a bald Tim Roth-ish guy. Then a cheap cinematic adaptation of the same story as an autoplay video. I like that she’s going through all this and her channel videos only have 50 views… but what is she even going through? And what does JLB know, or is trying to help her from? She makes a response video addressed to him, a tarot card reading accusing him of being pathetic. Problem with found footage films is that in seeking authenticity, your movie looks very bad. 70 minutes in the major event that’s happened as a result of her Challenge is that she’s torn up her favorite stuffed animal then cried about it – or maybe this was normal sleep deprivation \/ moody teen \/ youtube overdose behavior. “They’re just videos” JLB: Casey… “That’s not even my name” She calls him a pedophile and hangs up. A year later she contacted him and they met up in NY. After Saint Maud<\/a><\/em> this is my second movie of the month that hints at horror but ain’t horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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