This 3-hour Elizabeth Holmes doc broke our brains

Shaan Puri (0:00)

All right, so this is going to be a movie discussion about the new Nathan Fielder, Elizabeth Holmes documentary called You Can See Everything. This is full of spoilers. So if you haven't seen the movie, and you don't want spoilers, don't watch this.

This is for people who have seen it and want to react with other people to the thing, except for Sam hasn't seen it. And I gave him an out. I said, you don't have to get spoiled, but you want to get spoiled.

Sam Parr (0:34)

I want to be spoiled. I'm a grown man. I cannot stand what people say. I don't want it's like, dude, just tell me everything that happens, please.

Shaan Puri (0:40)

Well, Nathan Fielder himself, I was reading an interview and he said, he read some study. They had two groups of people, one that were spoiled and one that was unspoiled. Then they watched the movie and the enjoyment of the movie was higher amongst the spoiled group than the unspoiled group. So he's like, maybe there's something to it where people actually like it more when they kind of know what's coming.

Sam Parr (0:59)

So what's the premise here? All I know is that Nathan Fielder is like a Sacha Baron Cohen like character where he's silly and satirical. He had a show where he would prank people, but this seems serious.

Shaan Puri (1:11)

Well, we should lay the groundwork. So Sam hasn't seen the movie. Me and Diego went and saw it last night, but we didn't talk to each other afterwards. We got out at midnight, went home.

And then Ben, I think you're more of a Nathan Fielder fan. Like you've watched, Ben, have you watched like Nathan For You and the rehearsal like fully or partially or what?

Ben (1:28)

Yeah, partially, but I would definitely, I'm a fan of his craft.

Shaan Puri (1:31)

All right. So Sam, your question is, what's the premise of the movie? So the premise of the movie is 34 days before Elizabeth Holmes was going to go into prison. So she post, it's post all the scandal after she was already convicted. Now 34 days away from going into jail and she's got two little kids and she's got her not husband, technically, I think fiancee. They're not married because she owes hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution, so they didn't want to get married and combine their finances, but they have two kids. And so he calls her his wife, even though it's fiancee. All right. So she's 34 days away from going in and they contact A24 about doing a movie together, documenting her beforehand. Nothing comes of it. Nathan Fielder finds out about this, jumps on the opportunity, moves in with her in her house, tiny, tiny house on the beach in Del Mar, and lives with her for 34 days. And then for the next three years, continues to pursue the story in complete secrecy until it debuted at a random film, at the Telluride Film Festival a few months ago. And surprise to everybody, it was unbelievable. The reviews coming out of her were unbelievable. Now the movie is the top rated movie, I think on Letterboxd, Rotten Tomatoes and like moviecritic.com or whatever, like some other services, has the highest rating across all three of any movie. It's the first documentary that's favored to win best picture.

And I think it had like a blowout, like block box office opening weekend basically.

Sam Parr (3:04)

I saw someone say that Nathan, they're like, I don't know if this is possible for a documentary, but Nathan deserves best actor.

Shaan Puri (3:12)

Okay, that's what Nathan would do. You say something to him and he just goes, okay.

Sam Parr (3:20)

And I also saw, I think it was, what's the director, Nolan? What's his?

Shaan Puri (3:24)

Oppenheimer.

Sam Parr (3:26)

But what's his full name? Lance.

And I think it was him. And this was on stage at a conference years ago. And he was talking about how Nathan Fielder is amazing and that his technique for telling a story is amazing. And the way that he uses angles, he was complimenting him as a director when everyone thought of him as a gag guy. And then someone reposted this and they're like, he was not joking. He was being serious. And if you see the new movie, you see exactly what he's talking about because it appears as a, was there some ways that the camera was working that helped tell the story?

Shaan Puri (3:57)

Yeah. I mean, most of the movie is shot like Sam, move your face all the way up to the camera.