The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Is Deceiving Its Audience in Real Time
How the Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Is Deceiving You
A first-person account of watching You Can See Everything, the new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes from directors Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder. The writer argues the film's real subject isn't Holmes's fraud but the audience's own susceptibility: through close-ups, editing, and the order information is revealed, it repeatedly flips how viewers feel about the people on screen. A theater full of adults shouted at the screen, and the writer left convinced that emotion, not evidence, drives most of what we believe about others. The piece also notes Holmes was acquitted of all patient-fraud charges and is imprisoned for misleading investors.
We form an emotional impression first, then we build a belief around it, and then we go looking for facts that support it.