The archetypal authoritative trailer for Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's genre-bending Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" has arrived, and it promises an close appearance at one of Silicon Valley's most notorious felons.
The documentary follows Holmes, the once-celebrated founder of Theranos, a now-defunct blood-testing startup, who was accused of construction the business on false promises and nonexistent technology. While Holmes has admitted that she made mistakes, she denied any offender wrongdoing. Following a lengthy trial, Holmes was established guilty in 2022 on four counts of fraud and conspiracy.
As we see in the documentary's trailer, which adopts the spirit of a mind-bending mystery-thriller, Holmes has continued to keep her innocence. But Fielder and Oppenheim are plainly skeptical.
Fielder serves as a benevolent of host, interviewer, and narrator as he moves in alongside Holmes and her family in the weeks before she reported to jail to assist an 11-year-sentence in May 2023.
In the trailer, Fielder bluntly asks Holmes how she ended up as a convicted felon if she did nothing wrong. She replies, "I desire I knew, you know? I don't know. I don't awareness akin I comprehend that."
Later, she tells Fielder, "I don't have item to hide."
Here's everything to cognize concerning "You Can See Everything."
The documentary was filmed in secret
Holmes reported to national prison on May 30, 2023, to commencement serving her 11-year sentence. (Her prison time has since been shortened by approximately two years.)
"You Can See Everything" was kept under wraps for complete three years until it had its astonishment premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in first September. A abbreviated teaser arrived online that identical day.
Critics who attended the screening have described "You Can See Everything" as disarming, surreal, and fascinating. Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, are depicted as "willing, if wildly offbeat subjects," according to Deadline's Pete Hammond.
Kyle Buchanan, the erstwhile awards columnist at The New York Times, stated that Evans comes throughout as a "wild narcissist" and the "unlikely celebrity of this film."
The 'You Can See Everything' trailer offers additional understanding into Holmes and Evans' dynamic
Holmes and Evans welcomed a baby boy named William in 2021 during Holmes was awaiting test for her charges. The birth of their second child was revealed in a 2023 court filing, as Holmes' lawful squad sought to postpone her incarceration.
In one scene, Evans tells Fielder that he cut in affection alongside Holmes nearly immediately, during their archetypal conversation.
Fielder pushes back, asking whenever Evans learned the fact concerning Theranos and whether he's concerned concerning Holmes' track record.
"Weren't you concerned that she was, kind of, scamming you?" Fielder asks.
"100%, but what did she have to acquire from me?" Evans replies.
"Well, isn't your family rich?" Fielder counters.
Evans is the heir to Evans Hotels, a hospitality business founded by his grandparents that runs three luxury hotels in San Diego. He currently plant as a biotech administrator at the lifeblood evaluation startup Haemanthus, according to his LinkedIn.
"I think that there's, like, a lot of distinct levels of wealth," Evans tells Fielder in the trailer. In another clip, Evans says that he doesn't accept Holmes has always lied to him.
Holmes and her ex-boyfriend and co-defendant, Sunny Balwani, were ordered to pay $452 million in compensation to victims of their Theranos fraud in 2023 in supplement to their jail sentences.
"You Can See Everything" arrives in theaters on October 16.
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