It’s not often that a documentary captures the cultural zeitgeist. Yet You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder’s bonkers movie about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, has hijacked the national conversation, sold out more than 2,000 U.S. movie theaters and even inspired Halloween costumes. Here at The Independent’s U.S. culture desk, the documentary has sent our writers spiraling, and all of us have asked the same thing: What on earth did we just watch?
The film begins 34 days before Holmes is set to surrender herself to the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, where she’s serving an 11-year sentence after being convicted on four counts of fraud and conspiracy for lying about the capabilities of her biotech company’s blood testing technology and conning investors out of millions of dollars. Once she surrenders (about halfway through the film’s nearly three-hour run time), the film takes a turn no one saw coming.
