‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Film Review: Debut Feature Dips Into the Web’s Creepy Side
thewrap.comporn ban), I mostly used the site to connect with other Broadway nerds. Watching the Slender Man web series “Marble Hornets” alone in my bedroom was about as dark as I went.So “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” Jane Schoenbrun’s debut feature about creepypasta culture and teenage loneliness, feels a bit like looking at an alternate version of myself.
What internet rabbit holes might I have fallen down if I’d had meaner parents or worse social skills? The film makes for a fascinating study of online indoctrination, as its protagonist blurs the line between role-playing insanity and actually going insane.
Unfortunately, “World’s Fair” hobbles itself by ultimately shifting focus from that enigmatic young girl to a rich, older man.The girl is Casey (Anna Cobb), a tomboyish loner who opens the film by vlogging in her attic bedroom.
Clad in a black T-shirt for the niche metal band Skulls–tter, Casey fake smiles her way through “the world’s fair challenge,” an online phenomenon that asks participants to say, “I want to go to the world’s fair” three times; prick their fingers; and watch a psychedelic video.
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