There are many moments in Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to The World’s Fair that distill teenage isolation and dissociation perfectly. There is a scene where protagonist Casey (Anna Cobb) is recording a vlog in the snowy woods outside her home. She’s recently taken the titular “World’s Fair Challenge” and is sharing her symptoms with us, comparing them to her past experiences with sleepwalking and nightmares. “It was like watching myself on a TV all the way across the room,” she says. “I’ve been feeling that way recently since I watched that video.” Sharing this description of dissociation for an internet audience is clearly Casey’s way of reaching out that anyone who grew up lonely and chronically online can understand.
Casey is a lonely teenager in a nondescript town where we don’t meet her friends or parents (aside from her dad, who is only heard yelling at her to keep it down late at night). Out of love for horror movies, she decides to participate in “The World’s Fair Challenge.” For anyone who spent their adolescence huddled up close to their computer screen late at night, reading creepypastas and navigating their way through the detritus of the internet, The World’s Fair will feel familiar. From the beginning, as we watch Casey talk to the camera and take the challenge (saying “I want to go to the world’s fair” three times, then pricking her finger and smearing blood on her laptop screen, then watching a flashing video of colors), there are echoes of all the creepy things you can find online if you’re looking for them. There are even points in the movie where we seemingly cut to a character’s laptop screen, watching the variety of videos that come up on autoplay. It can feel a bit slow but also an accurate depiction of what a late-night online can turn into.
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