This new Elizabeth Holmes film is killing me. She is manipulative as hell. I don't think she's crazy. She's actually really smart and conniving. That new man/baby daddy of hers is also a special case.
Spoiler: there's a random frontal of a flaccid 🍆 for no damn reason
Spoiler ycse
So it’s not the norm for documentary subjects to get paid??? I can’t imagine committing to that sort of time expenditure & incredibly intrusive filming, with no control over the product, and not getting compensated at all
After staring mouth agape and speechless when the credit rolled, the first thing I thought was "it's going to be wild to see this again." The second thing I thought was "it's going to be wild to see this a third time."
just saw 'you can see everything' for a second time and had an entirely different reaction to the first half of the film
goddamn art is freaking cool sometimes
@RedPilled_USA I was irritated at the aspect ratio at first but then realized how brilliantly it works. I literally felt like I was in between Liz and Billy - two big black unknowable depths
It really can’t be overstated how [REDACTED] is the heart of You Can See Everything—in part because she is the *only* character who openly wrestles with her own actions and potential regrets, expresses anger & uncertainty, and admits to lying sometimes. She’s a real human being!
I alternated between mouth completely agape, horrified face, and literally covering my eyes with my hands
When the credits rolled, the guy next to me just put his head in his hands and bent over and sighed really loud
Just saw “You can see everything”
Don’t know if it’s the greatest movie I’ve ever seen (maybe yes?). I’ve never been with my mouth open, engaged, shocked & mesmerized for 3 hours like that, ever.
Masterpiece of our times. Give it all the awards. Nathan Fielder is god tier.
The swimming shots were masterful. Wait, he did go swimming with her after all? Wait, is that Liz or Amanda? Does it matter? Wait, does Nathan have muscles? Much to consider
my three favorite parts of You Can See Everything:
> seeing a WeWork with a view that nice
> the initial distant shot of two people swimming in the ocean, then zooming in at the very end
> the title hinging on the word “can,” coupled with her claims about Theranos and her text "FYI you can totally see everything"
Imagine you are a woman who has just committed wire fraud, you are married to the poncyest man in the world, you are going to federal prison in less than a month and some random man spends 3 excruciating, uninterrupted minutes explaining "who's on first" to you. In your own home
@JacobPerry I make it a point when traveling to always go inside anything named "House of XYZ." Oh, you have a house? An entire house named after XYZ?! Yes, I shall visit your XYZ House
Never been disappointed
I think Nathan Fielder did a really good job with You Can See Everything. Especially in showing how unwilling Amanda Seyfried was to acknowledge her own role in potentially harming another person. He had everyone looking at one another and questioning everyone else’s intentions, while seemingly being completely unwilling to examine their own behavior. I thought Amanda’s resistance to doing that was especially revealing
I also obviously think Billy is terrible. I think he’s cruel and exploitative. I’ve seen Elizabeth’s tweets for years and thought they were her. Finding out they’re his was jarring and sad.
But as much as I dislike Billy, I think he made a very good point. Why would he care what Amanda thinks? She’s an actress who has profited from portraying his wife as a bizarre and dishonest and manipulative freak to an audience that is largely voyeuristic, incredibly binary in their moral thinking, and seemingly unable to separate fiction from reality
I don’t think that Amanda needed to defend Elizabeth or excuse anything she’s done but I do think it’s bizarre how unwilling she seemed to consider that she might have contributed to another person’s suffering
Other takes on the movie makes me realize how finely attuned my bs meter is. Would've taken 45 secs for me to clock that they're both pathological liars. Fielder, whose livelihood is quite literally to make people wonder if he's joking or not, doesn't come off as believably duped
YCSE is art. A surprising 3hr rumination on tautology, semantics & epistemology. Does objective truth exist? Is someone lying if they believe it? Can you ever know?
But if you work in a biz w practiced liars you'll struggle w the film's insistence on this ambiguity. They're nuts
What I know for sure:
Billy is a bad person (with a great foldy phone!🫠)
Liz's parents are terrified of their son in law and daughter
I want a sequel badly
Those poor kids