 Did Nathan Fielder Get Too Close to Elizabeth Holmes? Is the girlboss-turned-felon pathologically guileless, or the world’s most ruthless, consummate manipulator? A new documentary attempts to find out.
“I think this is the moment in time to capture this story, before I’m gone,” says Elizabeth Holmes. (via A24)
You can see everything is a remarkable sentence. Four words; infinite possible interpretations, depending on who is speaking and in what context. You would understand this to mean very different things if shouted from the precipice of the Grand Canyon versus, for instance, whispered seductively by the stripper who is beckoning you toward a velvet settee—or pointing you in the direction of the ATM, for that matter. It all hinges on the unspoken second half of the sentence: You can see everything from up here. You can see everything for a price. Or, in the case of the new documentary about Theranos founder-turned-convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes: You can see everything—and still have absolutely no idea what you’re looking at...
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