unpacks the mythology of adolescence in a way that's so harrowingly familiar and also so otherworldly. speaking of, it reminded me of a couple recent films about teen folklore that i also really liked: Graham Swon's The World Is Full of Secrets and Bertrand Bonello's Zombi Child. but only Jane's film incorporates the internet, and brilliantly. the lonely, very-online teen in me especially has a soft spot for this — strange considering how terrifying the movie is also. We're All Going to the World's Fair transcends genre trappings with feeeeeeling.

Eighth Grade but make it r/nosleep

SUNDANCE 2021: film #27

“i don’t know what to expect”

not my vibe at all unfortunately. i like the bones of this but not how it constructs itself, and i found it harder to pay attention the longer it went on. i really admire a lot of what’s going on but couldn’t grasp onto anything tangible

🎟🎟🎟🎟🎟💪

yes how do i go back in time & give the creepy older man i used to interact with on the internet as a 15 year old a tarot card reading as a way to say “fuck you”
wrote some more thorough thoughts here <3

‪Went to bed right after watching We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, had weird dreams, and woke up still thinking about it. I think that’s the right way to do this fascinating, moving look at the dehumanization and isolation of the internet generation. Good stuff.‬

may write more fully-formed thoughts later but this is like, one of the most esther-core movies i've ever seen. that feel when you're not seeing the same changes as the transition timelines you saw and envied for so long...........so you gotta pretend like you are, and pretend like you knew you were pretending, and pretend like it doesn't suck the air out of your lungs. and you feel like it makes you a bad person that you want so badly what you'll never get. what a picture. what a picture!!!!

“All at once she was afraid that she was dissolving, coming apart layer by layer like a piece of cardboard in a gutter puddle.”
- Margaret Atwood

Dysphoria devouring you bite by bite.

:: to all those adolescents who underwent cheap e-procedures of self-transcendence with the screen as a mediator and confiner of what they cultivated :: to those who stared slackjawed and giddy at the fact that they could find a way to make their body boundless, something without end, something where identity was contingent on strands of text only, and where nothing existed beyond those words :: to those who wished they could feel something different, something other than a permeating lack, and by this voluntarily signing up to a defamiliarising program for the signifiers of fake and real, all in the name of needing that blind faith to rematerialise ::

(p.s. i think if this is marketed as a horror film it will significantly tank its reception BUT it unsettled me more than most things have recently though i am exactly the sort of person to feel that way)

here i am, on my fourth watch of the film over the past six months, and it really only gets better and better. this is the kind of movie that gives me the inspiration and the energy to finally begin pursuing my filmmaking career. this is the kind of movie that changes my entire view on film. jane schoenbrun truly is a genius.

I love Jane Schoenbrun!!!!!!

holy shit

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

*David Ehrlich Voice* David Cronenberg's Eighth Grade

A film that goes beyond the norms of horror instead, using its medium to dive into the human act of loneliness. This is maybe one of the only films that look at the internet from an outside perspective without telling us things like "internet bad" but allowing us to observe the reaction people have because of it.

I'm so so fucking glad this got picked up by HBO and hope a lot of young filmmakers get something from this a true gem!

tried to write a lot more about this after this watch, my own personal feelings, dyphoria, online communities, and you can check it out here:

tragicmushrooms.medium.com/were-all-going-to-the-world-s-fair-bbad39e392f2

i wish so much that i could find the words. i couldnt even find the tears. 
perfect haunting devastating perfect.

im so friken tense!! the internet is so big and it is so hard to find your teen self in a dense vacuum of space

Definitely made me wanna be on the internet less. But there are a lot of interesting places and possibilities left unexplored. Anna Cobb is a super interesting screen presence that I’m excited to see in future movies. 

Not for me! But good job everyone!

Not bad for a coming of age movie. Was expecting more umph but u can’t have it all

would have been better with jack Black