Jane Schoenbrun has made a pair of the most modern tech-savvy coming-of-age films of the last few years. We look back at their online start.
A reductive comparison of the two might describe one as “highbrow” and the other as “low.” Yet what is so refreshing about Schoenbrun’s own art is how such distinctions of “high” and “low” collapse in on themselves, creating a blend emblematic of today’s online film culture—one, at its best, full of autodidactic fans just as appreciative of one extreme as they are the other.
—by way of the autoplay feature, which queues up a response to Casey’s “World’s Fair Challenge” video. A concerned viewer, known only as JLB, but eventually revealed as a similarly lonely middle-aged man, warns that she may be in trouble. They begin an anonymous long-term friendship over Skype, with JLB hiding his face. Near the end of the film, the two have a falling out that ends with Casey calling JLB a pedophile.
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