{"id":884364,"date":"2026-10-16T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884364\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:14:12","slug":"in-elizabeth-holmes-nathan-fielder-has-finally-met-his-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884364\/","title":{"rendered":"In Elizabeth Holmes, Nathan Fielder has finally met his match"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n About a third of the way through \u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d Nathan Fielder\u2019s new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes<\/a>, we watch the disgraced Theranos founder and convicted fraudster<\/a> pose for the camera \u2014 more than 200 of them, to be exact.\n <\/p>\n

\n In the days before she reported to federal prison<\/a> in 2023, Holmes had her likeness captured and scanned so she can be reproduced via video, hologram and artificial intelligence while she\u2019s locked up. It\u2019s partly a business decision \u2014 she and partner William \u201cBilly\u201d Evans, with whom she shares two children, are launching a new healthcare startup (which they refer to as Theranos 2.0), and it might be useful to have access to a version of Holmes that can be programmed, say, to give pitches. And yet, we see Holmes crying. She\u2019s been hurt before by putting her image too far out into the public. \u201cI have a weird history with being on camera,\u201d she says, sobbing.\n <\/p>\n

\n Thanks to \u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d that history is only getting weirder.\n <\/p>\n

\n The pre-release buzz around this new movie, which was made in secret and revealed via a surprise trailer<\/a> that dropped last month, has been near deafening. Some of the critics who had been privy to its secrets have boldly declared it \u201cthe movie of the year\u201d<\/a> or wondered whether it might even become the first documentary to receive an Oscar nomination<\/a> for best picture. With the film opening in theaters across the US on Friday, audiences now have their turn to see what all the fuss is about.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Fielder\u2019s movie is a wholly unique and revolutionary one. Thanks to the unparalleled access to Holmes and her family in the days before her incarceration (at one point we even see Evans showering nude), as well as some truly jaw-dropping creative decisions later in the movie, the film is gripping and shocking. It is a bold, perhaps impossible, quest for truth about someone whom Fielder compares to a magician. At one point, he wonders if she may just be the most manipulative person who has ever lived.\n <\/p>\n

\n Rarely, if ever, has a documentarian and subject been so perfectly matched. Through his shows \u201cNathan for You\u201d and \u201cThe Rehearsal,\u201d Fielder has established himself as someone pathologically obsessed with elaborate schemes, awkwardness, meta narratives and things that are not what they first appear. In these programs, Fielder plays both the straight man and the chaos agent, often appearing like an alien in human disguise sent to study our most inexplicable behavior, even if it means meddling in things himself.\n <\/p>\n

\n If Fielder is again playing a version of himself here, Holmes seems to be offering near infinite versions of herself up for examination, like a set of unblinking<\/a> reflections in a hall of funhouse mirrors. As the movie progresses, Fielder and the audience must question whether and how they\u2019re being deceived. Is Holmes just weird, as Evans, her partner, insists? A victim of the men in her life, as her father seems to believe? Someone who may be on the spectrum and incapable of understanding how others perceive her words, as a revelatory sequence involving Holmes\u2019 reaction to the Abbott and Costello \u201cWho\u2019s On First\u201d sketch<\/a> seems to suggest? Or is she just a compulsive liar who has somehow managed to delude even herself?\n <\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Holmes is generating headlines again\n <\/p>\n

Elizabeth Holmes, the former founder of Theranos, has been approved to move to a halfway house in 2027, according to ABC News. Holmes was originally sentenced to more than 11 years in prison in 2022, after being convicted of defrauding investors while running her failed blood testing startup. This comes as Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder prepare to drop their documentary on Holmes in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Holmes is generating headlines again<\/p>\n

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\n \u201cThe world believes a reality about me that isn\u2019t true. So what is the reality?\u201d Holmes says in the movie. It\u2019s a question that hovers over the entire production and one that isn\u2019t easily answered.\n <\/p>\n

\n Co-directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, who released \u201cPrimetime<\/a>\u201d also under the A24 banner last month, \u201cYou Can See Everything\u201d is somehow visually gorgeous and yet profoundly ugly \u2014 almost intentionally so. Much of it is filmed in extreme close-up, replete with zits, wrinkles and sweat on Fielder and Holmes, as if we\u2019re studying them under a microscope. As befitting Fielder\u2019s style for leaning into artifice, we often see the crew and their boom mics, as they work to create something that ultimately mixes reality and recreation, fact and fiction.\n <\/p>\n

\n A surprise person appears halfway through the movie \u2014 one being kept a closely guarded secret from audiences and which we won\u2019t spoil here \u2014 but whose presence transforms it entirely, emerging as both co-documentarian and co-subject. \u201cWe\u2019re working in Fiction Land,\u201d this person astutely observes at one point. That feels like an understatement.\n <\/p>\n

\n Fielder is a refreshingly candid guide through this strange land. He\u2019s open about his insecurities as to why Holmes wanted him to capture her \u2014 does his lack of scientific understanding mean he\u2019ll be an easy mark? \u2014 and the movie offers the case that he may have grown too close to or fond of his subject. When one person remarks that Holmes may be a victim of Stockholm Syndrome under Evans, viewers can only wonder if the same can be said for Fielder and Holmes.\n <\/p>\n

\n When Holmes does eventually report to federal prison in Texas, she does so after Fielder injects his trademark cringe into her last moments of freedom, suggesting he leave Holmes and Evans alone so they can have sex \u2014 then asking how it was \u2014 and offering her a gag gift in front of her parents of hair dye and sunglasses so that she can go on the run. Then, as she prepares to get into the car to leave Fielder, they embrace and stare awkwardly at one another until we finally hear the words, \u201cYou\u2019ve got this.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n But it\u2019s not Fielder who says this to Holmes in a bid to lift her spirits. It\u2019s she who is encouraging him, as if she knows the Herculean task he has ahead of him in trying to make sense of her. It\u2019s a stunning reversal of roles to capture on camera, but also feels entirely appropriate for a film that has rewritten the rules of documentaries<\/a> as we know them.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About a third of the way through \u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d Nathan Fielder\u2019s new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-884364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}