> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.jeffcobeacon.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Big Screen Views: ‘You Can See Everything’ is a Mind Bender - URL: https://www.jeffcobeacon.com/big-screen-views-you-can-see-everything-is-a-mind-bender/ - Published: 2026-10-27T22:36:18.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-27T22:36:18.000Z - Description: Psychology, journalism and technology collide on film - Author: Diane Urbani de la Paz - Tags: Arts & Culture The movie theater was filled to the brim with people — and with anticipation for “You Can See Everything,” the documentary breaking records at box offices across the country. Like any work of journalism worth its salt, “You Can See Everything” stirs up a boatload of questions. The film is like a long, strange airplane ride: you’re packed in close to your neighbors, and you’re whisked off to a whole new place. Director Nathan Fielder and his crew bring us inside the Del Mar, Calif., nest where Elizabeth Holmes lives with her partner Billy Evans. Holmes is the former CEO of Theranos, the health technology company that turned out to be a pack of lies. She and her former business partner Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani defrauded investors for hundreds of millions of dollars before they were caught; both were convicted in 2022\. “You Can See Everything” doesn’t mess with those numbers and dates. No, right away we are looking into Holmes’ huge eyes — they’re like clear-blue marbles — and watching Fielder himself try to figure out what is behind those eyes. Throughout the film’s first hour, we’re in the house with Holmes and Evans, watching them with their two children: Holmes is barefoot, holding her infant daughter,\*\* looking just a little disheveled as any mom would. This mom is days away from going to federal prison for an 11-year sentence. Fielder has made an unconventional documentary. For one thing, he’s on camera a lot as he interviews Holmes. Extreme close-ups have us watching his face; I couldn’t help but empathize with him as he listens to Holmes’ and Evans’ bizarre, sometimes sinister stories. Then another layer of weirdness is applied: Fielder brings in Amanda Seyfried, the actor who portrayed Holmes in the 2022 Hulu miniseries “The Dropout.” Holmes dropped out of Stanford University at age 19 and began developing Theranos in 2003\. Holmes has testified that while at Stanford, she was raped. Her father, Christian Holmes, mentions this on camera in “You Can See Everything,” but unfortunately Fielder does no follow-up questioning whatsoever. Right after Christian tells Fielder of the rape, Evans jumps in and steers the conversation in another direction. Evans made my skin crawl. I’m still shuddering with revulsion, hours after seeing him in the documentary. Seyfried and I are together on this. The actor, who devoted months to researching Holmes’ life, is asked by Fielder if she wants to see Evans and Holmes split up. “Of course I do,” she retorts. “No woman wants to see another woman controlled by that kind of guy.” It would be simple to decide that Evans is the villain here, as he uses every channel he can find to impose his narcissistic will on the narrative and on Holmes. He wants money for being in the documentary. He wants to control the minds of the filmmaker and of his partner, before and during her prison sentence. And Holmes, at times, seems to be sucked under his spell. He has an evil streak as wide as the interstate highway. But of course this web is more tangled than that. Holmes, who repeats her beliefs about Theranos being based on a viable technological invention, is so good at appearing sincere. It seems she is fully convinced that she’s a completely honest and forthright woman. “It’s just so real with us,” she says of her relationship with Evans. Ugh. Seyfried has issues too. Why did she take the lead role in “The Dropout” when some of the content was sensationalized fiction? Then there’s our documentarian. He is not immune to Holmes’ tale. “I’m not really putting my feelings into this … I’m just trying to be accurate,” Fielder says. Hmm. “You Can See Everything” is a twisting, turning and riveting tale. The film is fuel for conversations about human psychology, journalistic practices, the seductions of technology and romantic relationships that bleed into business. Already there is talk about it making history as the first documentary narrative to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. If I were asked, it would already have my vote.