You Can See Everything arrives in Australia as a mind-bending Holmes film
Nathan Fielder's documentary explores how stories construct reality through the lens of Elizabeth Holmes.
Director Nathan Fielder made a three-hour film about Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford dropout who claimed she could change blood testing through her company Theranos and raised close to a billion US dollars.
Now she is in prison for fraud. The film is really about something bigger: how stories are built, told and believed.
The first half follows Fielder as he films Holmes and her husband in their San Diego home during the 34 days before she reports to prison. Holmes says she never lied.
Fielder's doubt keeps pulling viewers out of any spell. The second half shifts entirely.
After Holmes reports to prison, Fielder and co-director Lance Oppenheim use other techniques to explore what real even means. By the end, it is almost hard to tell what you actually saw and what was built for you.
- Three hours
- Film length
- Close to $1 billion
- Money raised
- $9 billion
- Theranos valuation
- Sunny Balwani
- Co-founder convicted
Why it mattersThe film raises questions about truth and reality that go beyond one fraud case. How much of what we see is constructed, and who gets to decide?
AustraliaAustralians can now watch the film locally, and it offers a rare look at how a major documentary can deconstruct a person and a story simultaneously.
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