''You Can See Everything'' stays with you


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Posted by blindness on October 24, 2026 at 11:33:24

Saw it a couple of days ago and I have to say, it's one of those movies that your mind keeps going back to.

I'm sure everyone knows what the movie is and what it's about. It is centered around Nathan Fielder, the comedian whose comedy is built on meta narratives, documenting (he's actually one of the two co-directors, working with Lance Oppenheim) the last days of Elizabeth Holmes before she needs to turn herself in to prison for an 11 year sentence.

That's the first half of the film, which is wild, with interesting bits, some insights ... perhaps.

Then the second half starts. (No spoilers.) That's where things start twisting and bending, and the movie begins to question the nature of documentaries, points of view, layers of deception, what a documentarian chooses to show you and leaves out, how the subject of a documentary engages with the work, and not to mention, how actors interact with reality (to some extent). In short, it turns into a self-aware dissection of what we, the viewers sitting at the receiving end, are allowed to see and know.

Jump in and see the movie before it gets its Oscar this year. This may prove to be a ground shifting piece of work when it comes to documentary film making in the future. IMO, obviously.

(BTW, not a huge Nathan Fielder fan: both my kids (who otherwise don't agree on all that much) try to get me into it, but neither his "Nathan for You" or "The Rehearsal" actually clicked with me wrt its humor, though I fully appreciate the work that he does.)


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