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Old 19th October 2022, 04:22 PM
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Cultist on the Rampage
 
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WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR – No one can say the internet isn’t a spooky place. Attempts to put that across on film often end up a bit clumsy, but WAGTTWF feels eerie and off-key. Nothing much happens – we follow a teen’s involvement in the world of online role playing as she plumbs the depths of a mysterious RPG (ARG? I don’t know, I’m old), an infatuation that attracts an online ‘admirer’. Its set-up sounds slightly typical but the film downplays and ultimately leaves open any predator / prey cliches, instead reaching beyond narrative towards the ambient oddness of virtual environments and our own obsessions. It’s a stark film, minimal, and its world seems silent and empty, but a dreaminess descends when ASMR pushers murmur their incantatory spiel and life seems cut up into the fragments you can see on screens; WAGTTWF doesn’t fall back on big visuals to bring home its strangeness, rather it’s the pervasive disconnect within digital media itself that fills this movie with its spectral air. Sometimes hypnotic and always at least interesting, might not be everyone’s cup of tea (what ever is?) but definitely worth a look for fans of offbeat creepiness.
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