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6 Questions I Still Have After Watching You Can See Everything

Despite its length and extraordinary access, the film clarifies absolutely nothing.

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There is a reason reviews of You Can See Everything have characterized it as “bonkers,” “mind-bending,” and “a journey into the nature of truth.” It is also “worth the hype.”

The film follows Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, in the days leading up to her incarceration for defrauding Theranos investors. Running almost three hours long, Co-Director Nathan Fielder (Nathan For You, The Rehearsal) is as much a character in the film as his subject — and he performs his role superlatively. 

Throughout, Holmes and her fiancé, Billy Evans, maintain that she never lied to investors (or anyone else) and that she still doesn’t know where things went so wrong. 

Despite its length and extraordinary access, the film clarifies absolutely nothing. Instead, the viewer walks away even more uncertain of everything they thought they knew about Holmes, Theranos, and the nature of truth. Here are a few questions I walked away with:

1. Is Billy Evans Controlling or Just Protective?

Evans, entrepreneur and hotel heir, is definitely an unexpected star of this movie. Depending on which act of the film you’re in and who you ask, he might be a hero or the controlling, unhinged villain. 

From the outset, Evans often interrupts interactions between Fielder and Holmes, cutting in just before Fielder can ask Holmes the truly revealing questions. He even does it when Fielder is speaking to Holmes’ dad. We also learn that, while Holmes is in prison, he controls all of her social media accounts.

At one point, Evans tells Fielder that he’s afraid for the safety of himself and his kids, so he carries a firearm on him at all times. Fielder asks incredulously, “You have a gun on you right now?” This provoked a knowing guffaw from the blue-state audience in my theater, as though this is further evidence that Evans is paranoid and........

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