The wild and mesmerising Theranos doco You Can See Everything, pitches Elizabeth Holmes head-to-head with its maker

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What happens when a founder suspected of fraud invites a camera crew into her home to document everything and nothing? Strap yourself in for this psychological mindfuck.

“I’ve always thought that sincerity was overrated,” says Canadian actor and comedian Nathan Fielder in an episode of his TV series The Rehearsal. “It just ends up punishing those of us who can’t perform it very well.”

Fielder’s absurdist comedy/documentary, involving elaborately staged scenarios and ethically questionable social experiments, exposes how little we can know about where participants’ performances begin or end. His own performative awkwardness becomes a foil in these experiments, too.

In his feature-length “documentary” You Can See Everything, co-directed with Lance Oppenheim, Fielder stages a similar experiment with Theranos founder and convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes.

Holmes, a Stanford dropout and self-made billionaire, was just 19 when she founded Theranos. The company aimed to “democratise health care” by creating a portable machine that could perform hundreds of tests from a single finger-prick blood sample.

Theranos never delivered on its promises, and in 2022 Holmes was convicted of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy, and sentenced to 11 years in prison. She maintains her innocence.

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The story has proved irresistibly fascinating, generating countless articles, a hit podcast, a bestselling book, a TV series series starring Amanda Seyfried, and two documentaries.

You Can See Everything is less a documentary than an anthropological investigation.

The three-hour film has two parts. In the first, we join Holmes and her partner, Silicon Valley tech bro Billy Evans, inside their rented Southern California beach house during her final 34 days before entering prison.

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