By Robert Scucci
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A common feeling that has been shared on the internet is that we are simultaneously more connected and isolated than ever, and We are all going to the world exhibition is a dead representation of this idea. Having grown up by reading urban myths and copypasts generated by internet on forums like something terrible, I was attracted by this film by Jane Schoenbrun because it explores the harmful effect that the Internet could have on adolescents when they are unattended.

Back in the 90s and the first aughts, my friends and I had access to shock sites like Rotten which traumatized us for life. We are all going to the world exhibition carries this same type of energy in generation Z, but thanks to the use of viral challenges which have their own set of unique consequences. Thanks to the exploration by the film of our obsession with finding validation on the Internet, an underlying sadness is when these emotional connections prove to be based on superficial interactions which simply cannot replace real relationships.

I want to go to the World Fair

We are all going to the world exhibition Center on Casey (Anna Cobb), a live streamer who decides that she wants to note the “World’s Fair Challenge”. Although the rules of the game are mainly left to the imagination of the spectator, the basic premise is that if an online user declares “I want to go to the world exhibition” three times, pricks himself, matures the blood to the screen and watch a short video which is never seen by the public but which involves a lot of flashing colors, then it now plays an interactive game with a community Other players who document how the game changes both their mental and physical condition.

Casey, who lives a lonely life in his attic room, desperately wants to undergo his own changes and find his audience thanks to the challenge of the world. After watching a certain number of videos of other players demonstrating how they have changed since the beginning of the challenge, Casey slips into a depression because its content does not generate views, and she does not know any real changes compared to external forces itself. While she struggles with her lack of popularity online, a user known as JLB (Michael J. Rogers) contacts her via Skype and tells her that she is in danger.

Focuses on the isolation of adolescents

Place your primordial on the isolated daily life of Casey, We are all going to the world exhibition Demonstrates how damaging internet trends can be for solitary adolescents who find it difficult to find their own identity. In the case of Casey, she becomes depressed by the low show of her videos. This weak audience is directly in correlation with its behavior as a game, and its conversations with JLB, have a legitimate effect on its psychological state, or at the very least encourage it to organize increasingly confusing performance while ‘She tries to earn opinions.

Expressing suicidal and homicide thoughts as it deepens the challenge of the world, Casey videos trigger JLB – which can or not orchestrate the whole game – to reach out to it because it does not want to see its Online friend engaging in any regrettable behavior. Although it seems obvious that Casey desperately tries to form a human connection through the viral trend, it is not quite clear if the game itself is in fact the reason for its behavior changes, or if it Simply leans in the premise so that she is not feeling so alone.

A slow -combustion psychological drama and adulthood

Despite the heavy subject that We are all going to the world exhibition Covers, its estimated budget of $ 15,000 forces the public to read between the lines. With little or no special effects, the tension manifests itself by the point of view of Casey Web Cam, and the discomfort that you will feel by watching this film comes from a place that is not necessarily tangible. Knowing how much this film was produced, I was completely impressed by the way in which so much suspense was made possible thanks to the simple use of brilliant computer monitors and black light paint in a dark room fixing the tone and mood.

The best way to describe the emotions that We are all going to the world Fair Trying to evoke is the kind of feeling you would get when you were when you were alone at homeNone of your friends were there, and you turned to Internet to feel something other than solitude or boredom.

Between the sequences involving live flows of Casey, there are granular photos of rainy suburbs during the winter months in which she document We are all going to the world exhibitionCreating a picturesque backdrop that evokes feelings of despair despite the fact that most of this imagery is quite harmless in any other context.

Operating as the first part of what is now known as TrilogyYou can currently broadcast We are all going to the world exhibition on max, as well as its suite, I saw TV shine. To date, details on the third episode are not yet known.