The film, which was co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Primetime director Lance Oppenheim, is creating buzz for a few reasons. First, the general public did not know the film existed before it premiered at Telluride Film Festival. Second, both the documentarian Fielder and his subject Elizabeth Holmes are fascinating human beings for very different reasons.
It’s a narrative match we didn’t know we needed. And there’s this spoiler, this one thing that everybody wants to talk about, but Nathan wanted Telluride and subsequent festival audiences to preserve the experience. We’re going to talk about the mystery person in You Can See Everything, and explain what can be explained.
Spoilers for You Can See Everything ahead! Seriously, try and watch it first if you can. The execution makes the film worth watching even if you happened to get spoiled on this particular thing, but know that if you keep reading it is because you made that choice.
Avert your eyes and exit if you don’t want that! Because what you hopefully did not get spoiled before seeing the film is that actress Amanda Seyfried, who won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for portraying Holmes in the 2022 Hulu limited series The Dropout, not only appears in You Can See Everything as herself but becomes an audience surrogate, critic, and participant wrapped up in one. Fielder visits the actress at several points during the second half of the film, after Holmes herself has been incarcerated in Texas.
They meet both at her New York City apartment as well as her farm upstate. At first, Fielder simply shows Seyfried the footage he has so far to get her reaction. He asks a few questions about the research that went into making The Dropout, how she prepared to play Holmes, and whether she considers the limited series to be a work of fiction.
Seyfried then reenacts several unrecorded conversations Fielder had with Holmes before filming began, or after she was behind bars. While other crew members were present in some cases, Fielder transcribed scripts from his own memory. As Seyfried points out, they could have been edited to paint Holmes in a more sympathetic light.
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