Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes Doc Met with Shock and Awe at Secret Screening

30 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by Teever

23 Comments

idontwantthis

2 hours ago

I haven't been able to get a clear answer to my question about Theranos: Was what she offered obviously impossible? That's my understanding. Blood is not homogeneous so it is physically impossible to get an accurate full blood panel from a single drop. Was there every any plan to address this or was it clearly a 100% fictitious product from the get-go? Did any journalist ever ask her or any scientist at Theranos about this problem? If not, then what were the scientists at Theranos doing all day? Were they all in on the scam? Or were there no scientists?

I just don't get how you can spend years pretending to build something so obviously impossible.

scyzoryk_xyz

19 minutes ago

I believe I read something about this film featuring a moment where Nathan insists that since she's innocent that they must go to the back yard to confirm how this machine works. Or something along those lines - in any case the absurdity of "I totally believe you, let me help you prove them wrong".

What I'm reminded of is that documentary The Jinx which basically takes you along for the ride until the subject accidentally confesses. Documentary filmmaking is so weird - there is always the element of fiction and make believe that somehow manages to get at the truth

ternaryoperator

4 hours ago

This movie is getting lots of publicity without a single review saying anything about the actual contents.

user

3 hours ago

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throwawalien

3 hours ago

plenty of reviews with varying praise

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/you_can_see_everything/revi...

"A triumphant, riveting, and continually shape-shifting piece of creative non-fiction with curiosity and a playful sense of uncomfortable humor that will be no surprise to anyone familiar with Fielder’s work, it’s the kind of documentary that is persistently inquisitive and skeptical: both about its alarmingly wide-eyed subject who often refuses to blink, and the process of documentary filmmaking itself."

"You Can See Everything reaches for accuracy in its portrayal of a much talked-about figure. It ends up asking, with plenty of humor but no small amount of wisdom, what “accuracy” would even look like in the first place."

xenospn

3 hours ago

“Contents: Lizzy Holmes”. That’s all you need.

ktallett

5 hours ago

The trailer for the documentary is such a draw, due to the subject, and also how close they were able to get. She is a mythical character in many ways yet a tech Lance Armstrong.

yostrovs

4 hours ago

She's not mythical. She's a female psychopath and that characteristic is fascinating for many people.

tanseydavid

2 hours ago

Her incredibly low-rate of eye blinks is extremely off-putting/disturbing for me.

Anyone else get the same vibe?

add-sub-mul-div

4 hours ago

Only the female part is fascinating to them. Otherwise we'd see more high level dude psychopath scammers in prison.

dlcarrier

2 hours ago

Her lackey got more prison time than she did, even though he was following her orders.

reaperducer

2 hours ago

even though he was following her orders.

I guess you missed World War II, and the trials that followed. "Following orders" isn't an excuse for anything.

OkayPhysicist

an hour ago

It's not an excuse, but we hanged the guys giving the orders, too.

dtagames

4 hours ago

But it's not the justice system; it's TV. And we have lots of psycho male scammers on TV.

user

3 hours ago

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ktallett

3 hours ago

SBF. Lance Armstrong. Both in a similar vein and both as fascinating.

OgsyedIE

4 hours ago

Rehabilitating her image in the same format as Martha Stewart promises to be highly profitable for pre-public investors who can reap the holdings of bagholders yet to come.

asdff

3 hours ago

Oh just watch the trailer

blinkbat

3 hours ago

that is not what will happen here.

quickthrowman

4 hours ago

I assure you that Nathan Fielder is not rehabilitating her image. If you’ve see his work, you’d understand.

He gets people with personality disorders or a lack of embarrassment to act insane in front of cameras, more or less. I don’t see why that would change, given the subject. She tried to get out of prison by having a baby.