Alejandro Avila

My reactions to You Can See Everything (as someone reasonably familiar with the case having read Bad Blood) — SPOILERS — - about an hour too long - Liz Holmes deserved a lesser sentence. The scale of the fraud was great yes but the harm done was minimal; her investors absorbed the loss. Retail wasn’t harmed and patients weren’t either. She was clearly the victim of a highly motivated and politicized prosecution. Frankly the investors completely failed in their diligence and deserved to lose their money - Liz is genuinely sympathetic. And a pathetic character. She clearly has surrendered all agency and is engaging in some kind of learned helplessness. Seems to bear no relation to the big corporate CEO she was before. Feel bad for her. There seems to be little upside to punishing her so severely. - didn’t remotely surprise me that she isn’t behind the X account. Did anyone think she was? How dumb do you have to be - Amanda Seyfriend was super unsympathetic and I ended up siding with the weird domineering boyfriend over her. Which takes some doing - the film was mostly an exercise in pointless navel gazing about the ethics of making a documentary; I can understand why a film student or a Hollywood obsessive might enjoy it but the stakes felt incredibly low. Shows the real disconnect between what Fielder and Seyfried think matters and what normal people do - Fielder was more interested in making meta jokes about Holmes/Seyfried than actually exploring Holmes’ psychology. The interesting parts of the films (the pre jail scenes) are too short - overall decent but wasn’t really about Liz at all it fell into the too familiar trap of the documentarian wondering about how much to insert himself into the story (gee that’s original) - I am flabbergasted that Fielder expected us to care about whether the subjects should be compensated. “It’s about the integrity of the documentary” uhh dude this is pretty low stakes stuff, also you’re comedian Nathan Fielder who makes a living getting people to beclown themselves, not Werner Herzog.