Thereās one film thatās appeared in almost every culture-adjacent conversation Iāve been privy to the last few weeksāYou Can See Everything, the three-hour-long documentary on Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes that premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. Filmed in the weeks before Holmes began serving her 11-year prison sentence for fraud, the film has apparently become Letterboxdās highest rated film of all time. (Itās not released in India, so good luck to us all.)
Nathan Fielder, the filmmaker behind You Can See Everything, if you remember, is the person who once opened a coffee shop in LA called Dumb Starbucks Coffee as a parody of its more famous namesake. (It was later shut as it didnāt have the requisite permits.) More famously, heās the creator of The Rehearsal, the mocumentary-style series where he plays a fictionalised version of himself who approaches strangers with an offer to help them rehearse for critical life moments. So, heās enacting someone helping someone enact something. Someoneās lied to their trivia group about their educational qualifications and thinks itās gone on for too long. Someone wants to see if motherhood is a fit for her in the near future. Enter Nathan Fielder with copycat pubs and wailing robot babies to simulate the real thing. Itās wry and underhand but also genius, harnessing social awkwardness and anxiety into highly watchable TV. (You can catch The Rehearsal on JioHotstar in India.) Add it to your weekend binge.
