“You Can See Everything” Will Make You Question Everything
For all the despicable acts Elizabeth Holmes carried out as the CEO of Theranos, that long list of criminal behavior somehow manages to feel small under Nathan Fielder’s analytical masterpiece, You Can See Everything. Which is not to say they are treated trivially; Holmes’ dramatic fall from entrepreneurial wunderkind to convicted fraudster, along with her unshakable claims of innocence, loom over nearly every turn of the three-hour documentary.
But after effectively moving in with Holmes in 2023, just 34 days before she is set to report to federal prison, Fielder and co-director Lance Oppenheim have turned their extraordinary access into an interrogation of heady questions that go far beyond Holmes’ guilty conviction. (In 2022, Holmes was found guilty of defrauding investors but acquitted of defrauding patients. Earlier this year, her legal team asked President Trump for an early release.) The result is a documentary that wonders: What shapes our realities? Do we really know the........
