Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes Doc Is a Mind-Bending Reality-TV Psychodrama
'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
In 'You Can See Everything,' Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim spend 35 days with Elizabeth Holmes before she reports to prison, capturing the disgraced Theranos CEO's unshakable belief in her own innocence. The 174-minute film, which premiered at Telluride, blends documentary and performance art, featuring Amanda Seyfried reading Holmes's own words and a bizarre Abbott and Costello bit that exposes Holmes's inability to grasp metaphor. The result is a haunting portrait of delusion and self-deception.
Her whole vibe is 'sincerity.' (Though it's also one of passive-aggressive unbroken-eye-contact creepiness.)
- xyzelement
I have a distinctive memory about Theranos from business school - so circa 2013 a few years before it blew up.
Some professor was going on and on about Holmes for being a young, female, founder. It stood out at the moment as weird because the praise was separate from success or outcomes or like brilliant science. It was all about the identity: gender and age.
I wonder if the reason the scam went so far as it did because it was "shaped" exactly like what people were looking for, like what they were told the future of STEM was supposed to look like.
- jiaosdjf
I watched the entire trailer fully believing that Nathan Fielder had managed to find the most unhinged uncanny look-alike actress to play Elizabeth Holmes.
This trailer was so good that I would have been fully prepared to watch a 2 hour dramatised mockumentary about Theranos.
Finding out that this was really Elizabeth Holmes was a huge shock
- seabombs
Love everything Nathan Fielder does. The trailer is awesome.
- nl
> But the more Holmes talks to Fielder, the more he teases out her unhinged rationale, which is: The device works fine! We just had to figure out that pesky chemistry stuff! The strange thing is that Holmes has such a corporate mindset that she treats the chemistry stuff…that hadn’t been invented yet…as just another glitchy small problem that could easily be solved
The difference between science and engineering right there...
- mark_l_watson
I watched a 90 second clip from this film earlier today: Holmes unblinking asking ‘Why would I deceive you…’ Really strange stuff. I have to admit that I watched the clip a second time.
- vintagedave
For those who are experts on body language, non-verbal communication, psychological communication tricks, etc -- what on earth are we seeing in that trailer?
- ddmf
There was some major tension in the trailer - I can't believe that's actually Elizabeth Holmes, but seeing her I can see how she managed to win over so many - she is very intense.
- saimiam
Who’s “Bobby” mentioned in the article? Did the writer just mix up Billy Evans with Bobby?