Fielder and Oppenheim Turn 2-Year Elizabeth Holmes Film Into a Meditation on Truth and Memory
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Updated · Defector · Oct 19
Fielder and Oppenheim Turn 2-Year Elizabeth Holmes Film Into a Meditation on Truth and Memory
3 articles · Updated · Defector · Oct 19
Summary
A24’s “You Can See Everything” starts as an intimate documentary on Elizabeth Holmes, Billy Evans and their 2 children in the final month before Holmes entered federal prison.
A “two years later” pivot reshapes the film into a meta inquiry about truth, memory and fraud, with Amanda Seyfried watching earlier footage and questioning how clearly Fielder can see Holmes.
Billy Evans becomes the second half’s sharpest jolt: in Austin, he tells Seyfried he has “vengeance” in his heart, says he can get people to do “just about anything,” and reveals he has been posting tweets for Holmes.
That delayed structure is the point of the film, the review argues, because waiting since Holmes’s May 30, 2023 prison entry turns a humanizing portrait into a broader examination of bias, performance and belief.
The closing image resolves an earlier ambiguous memory by showing Fielder himself swimming with Holmes, underscoring the movie’s claim that even with cameras rolling, no one can fully “see everything.”