Parents' Guide to You Can See Everything

Fielder is known for creating comedy from uncomfortable, awkward situations, and this almost surreal documentary adds an exclamation point to his body of work. Many previous endeavors by both Fielder and co-director Lance Oppenheim have blurred the line between fiction and reality, acting and unscripted (including an entire series focused on business scams), and You Can See Everything has a similar feel. Holmes' status as a convicted con artist is backed by plenty of reports from employees, investors, neighbors, and others who've told stories about her phenomenal ability to create and keep up a character version of herself. Now, in an effort to clear her name, she's decided to allow camera crews into her house during her last month of freedom, capturing her family life as a partner and a mother with a newborn and a toddler. With her unblinking stare, she asks a skeptical Nathan, "Why would I deceive you?" It's the question likely running through viewers' minds, too: Why would she participate in something almost guaranteed to make her look absurd? What can we trust? Is some of this film scripted? Is the documentary itself its own con job? And, if so, who's behind it—Fielder and Oppenheim, or Holmes and Evans?

Fielder is an unserious serious person who's creatively original and massively talented. If Holmes and Evans were looking to the restore her reputation, why choose Fielder? The choice is somewhat baffling. As is the behavior. Fielder fuels the documentary with his skepticism and eventually casts Evans as the villain. Then it's suggested that Fielder has developed feelings for Holmes, giving viewers even more reason to question what they're seeing. The second half of the film takes a provocatively inventive turn that could delight some but may feel very "mean girls" to those who perceive Holmes as misunderstood. On the other hand, oodles of former Theranos employees have testified that Holmes intimidated, bullied, and threatened them with legal action while the company was running—so, is she deserving of our compassion? Honestly, what's most difficult to accept is that a mother exhausted by caring for a newborn and toddler would choose to spend her last precious days of freedom performing for cameras instead of making memories with her children. Increasingly, it seems likely that the film was Evans' idea. Unless she is in on it. Which brings us back to her question, "Why would I deceive you?" Perhaps the more revealing question is why she believes the people around her wouldn't deceive her. You Can See Everything is a weird, wild mystery of mistrust that's undeniably exploitative—but who's exploiting whom? That's for viewers to unravel after the credits roll.