Review: A prank comic faces down a fraudster in the fab doc 'You Can See Everything.' Who blinks first?
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Set us as preferred In the mindbending documentary “You Can See Everything,” comedian Nathan Fielder and professed inventor Elizabeth Holmes sit in her beach house staring at each other like gunslingers.Fielder is the creator of the TV series “The Rehearsal” and “Nathan for You” who constructs discombobulating sham realities that include bogus businesses such as Dumb Starbucks.
Holmes is the former billionaire CEO of Theranos who pretended she’d built a revolutionary blood testing machine to squeeze investors for a few dollars more.Each is an expert in the con.But Fielder is deadpan and cold where Holmes is earnest and warm — and he’s been nominated for Emmys while, in May of 2023 when the film begins, she’s about to serve an 11-year sentence in federal prison.
As the camera cuts between close-ups of his narrowed eyes and her big, blue ones, Fielder tries to suss whether he can trust the famous fibber to be honest with him.The showdown is riveting.“You’re being real right now?” Fielder asks, dubious.Holmes beams.
“I’m always being real,” she swears with a smile.Her charm hits Fielder in the gut.His face stays neutral yet you can see his own confidence bleed out across the screen.Co-directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim (“Primetime”), “You Can See Everything” is the closest Fielder has come to making a traditional documentary.
A thrillingly cringe-tastic interviewer, he blurts out blunt questions like a bungee jumper leaping off a bridge, including asking Holmes’ romantic and business partner Billy Evans, the heir to a San Diego boutique hotel chain, whether it’s possible a woman convicted of fraud might be with him for his money.Movies ‘You Can See Everything,’ co-directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, offers extraordinary access to the convicted Theranos founder before t...