Nathan Fielder searches for truth in You Can See Everything

Why would I deceive you? There's no there's no reason for me to do that. You've probably seen this clip and the many many memes that have come along with it over and over and over and wondered what is going on? Well the wait to find out is over. And if you're already a fan of comedian, performance artist, job there's not really a name for a guy Nathan Fielder. I've been told my personality can make people uncomfortable. The way I see it the only way you can go to your gym is in disguise. Why did you snatch back the money? Why didn't you just give her the hundred? I was gonna buy six of them for $20. I curse you. What did she say? You're probably at least a little bit prepared for the end result. A bizarre, revealing, basically unbelievable documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. And it's one that some people think will become the first ever documentary to get a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars. Here's the setup. Fielder moves in with Holmes and her stage mom-esque fiancé Billy Evans, right as she's about to start serving her 11-year sentence for defrauding investors over her non-functioning blood analysis device. Then, in pretty typical Fielder style, things go off the rails in odd, meta, self-referential ways that Fielder and his co-director Lance Oppenheim have been begging critics not to spoil. I can say that it all happens as Fielder tries to go to the Bambi-eyed, impossibly earnest Holmes into divulging exactly what made her do what she did. And the weird part? Holmes and Evans just seem to think it's all good PR, that people don't know the real Holmes, and an unending slew of misrepresented facts and misleading headlines have constructed a picture of her that couldn't be further from the truth. Holmes even says it herself. That's why they invited Fielder there. Because if only Fielder could reveal the real Holmes they believe, then they could get back to work. And what does that work? Well, launching Theranos 2.0, only this time with lasers. Here's the most interesting thing. As Fielder tries to drill down into this impossible to find absolute truth about Holmes, we get this insane sort of formalistic twist. It is one that's already started generating Oscar's best picture buzz, something that a documentary has never done before. Now, no spoilers, but it's because the more absurd and artificial tactics he employs, the more the lens starts shifting away from Holmes and towards Fielder. And as it does so, it becomes this documentary about documentarianism, questioning why we watch them at all, and most importantly, why we think we can know anything about anybody. Again, hard to explain it without spoiling everything, but there's a point in the trailer that hints at what I mean. Fielder has this cryptic question about what if he finds out something about Holmes that she doesn't want the world to know, and Holmes' response is just as sinister.