By Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim have made something that does not feel like any documentary you have seen. “You Can See Everything” is a staggering, nearly three-hour dive into Silicon Valley and the cults of personality that built it — and at its center is Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder who granted the filmmakers unprecedented access for about a month before her prison stint began in 2023.
You Can See Everything (Credits: IGN)
The film asks a deceptively simple question: can you truly know someone? Holmes’ culpability is on the table, but the movie stretches far beyond one scandal. It becomes a study of cultural mythologies, personality cults, and the strange theater of American ambition — with Fielder’s own TV persona, the prankish obsessive behind The Rehearsal, woven through every frame as a kind of meta-subject.
A Haunting, Self-Reflexive Style
The filmmaking is unnerving by design. Suffocating 4:3 close-ups shot with long lenses, deep shadows that disguise motive, a rapturous form that feels like invasive surveillance mid-chase — all built from what are mostly simple, static conversations. It is a magnificent sleight of hand: the movie looks like a thriller while playing like an interrogation.
Much of it unfolds at a beachside home in San Diego rented by Holmes and her husband, hotel heir Billy Evans — an oddly serene stage for a story about one of tech’s biggest frauds. The total effect, the review argues, is greater than the sum of its parts: eerie, brain-breaking, and oddly sincere beneath the prank.
Why It Matters
At a moment when true-crime documentaries are a dime a dozen, “You Can See Everything” stands out by refusing to simply retell the Theranos story. Instead, it turns the camera on the machinery of belief itself — and on the filmmaker holding it. A must-watch for anyone who thinks they already know this story.
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