> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.bensmovieguide.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # I Spent Nearly Three Hours With Elizabeth Holmes. I Understand Her Less. - URL: https://www.bensmovieguide.com/i-spent-nearly-three-hours-with-elizabeth-holmes-i-understand-her-less/ - Published: 2026-10-25T21:19:51.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-25T21:19:51.000Z - Description: What starts as an unusually intimate documentary about Elizabeth Holmes turns into something much stranger. Nearly three hours of bizarre personalities, uncomfortable moments and questions that don't necessarily have answers. - Author: Ben - Tags: #editorial, #movie, Movie: You Can See Everything (2026), documentary, biography, 2020s, Rating: R, #Runtime: 175, #Rated For: language and some graphic nudity, #Verdict: Free, #Watch: Major Platforms, #Eyebrow: A Very Unusual Documentary, #new-releases I knew *You Can See Everything* was going to be weird within minutes. It's one thing to give a documentary crew complete access to your life. You're not hiding anything. You're being transparent. Good for you. But does that include letting them film you taking a shower? Completely naked? And even if you do allow that, why would the filmmakers decide it belonged in the finished documentary? There I was, watching a movie about Elizabeth Holmes, the convicted founder of Theranos, and suddenly I'm looking at her partner's genitals. It added absolutely nothing to the story. Nothing. And this was just the beginning. **Is This Really Elizabeth Holmes?** The documentary begins about a month before Holmes is scheduled to report to prison. Filmmakers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim have been granted extraordinary access to her home and family, including her longtime partner, Billy Evans, and their two young children. For a while, it's a relatively straightforward documentary. We're getting an unusually close look at someone who was once among the most celebrated entrepreneurs in America. But here's what's strange. This is the woman who founded Theranos, attracted enormous investments, became a billionaire on paper and convinced some extremely powerful people that her company was going to revolutionize medical testing. You would never know it from watching her here. She's soft-spoken, almost childlike at times, and seems genuinely confused by questions that shouldn't be particularly difficult to understand. There are moments when she comes across as surprisingly dense. I'm not exaggerating. It's almost like watching an adult patiently trying to explain something to a child. One of the documentary's early threads involves whether Holmes was simply misunderstood. Did she actually deceive people, or did she mean one thing while everybody else interpreted it differently? That's quite an explanation for a fraud conviction. Meanwhile, we're introduced to a version of Holmes that seems almost impossibly perfect. She's a devoted mother, loving partner, gentle, thoughtful and apparently without much of an ego. At least that's the picture being presented. I'm not saying those qualities aren't genuine. But reconciling this woman with the enormously ambitious CEO who built Theranos is difficult. It's almost like we're watching two completely different people. **And Then There's Billy** If Holmes is difficult to understand, Billy Evans is in a category of his own. He genuinely seems to love his children and appears to be a devoted father. But he's also controlling, intensely protective of Holmes, and seems comfortable speaking for her in ways that made me increasingly uncomfortable. At times, it almost feels as though he's taken over her identity. Then there's Fielder himself. He has a peculiar way of interacting with people, sometimes getting remarkably close to their faces or positioning himself in places that make perfectly ordinary conversations feel uncomfortable. And, of course, let's not forget that shower scene. Everybody involved seems a little strange. Some considerably stranger than others. **Then the Movie Takes a Turn** I think of *You Can See Everything* as two different movies. The first half is a reasonably conventional documentary, although the people involved are anything but conventional. The second half? I don't even know how to describe it without spoiling something, and I'm not entirely sure I could explain it properly if I tried. Let's just say the documentary heads in directions I wasn't expecting, including reenactments and some increasingly unusual questions about what's real and what isn't. One interesting part of the discussion involves *The Dropout*, the Hulu series starring Amanda Seyfried as Holmes. It's a dramatization of a real person's life. That means some events and conversations are recreated or invented for television. Yet there seems to be genuine surprise that the series might have negatively affected how people see Holmes. Really? You take an actual person, create a fictionalized version of her life, and then expect everyone watching to automatically recognize which parts are factual and which parts somebody made up? Labeling something a dramatization doesn't mean audiences won't believe what they're seeing. And without revealing where that discussion eventually leads, I'll just say it fits perfectly into an already very strange movie. **Interesting Isn't Necessarily the Same as Good** At nearly three hours, *You Can See Everything* is a considerable investment of time. Was I bored? Not particularly. There's plenty here to keep you curious, even if that curiosity sometimes comes from wondering what on earth you're watching. Did I love it? No. Would I call it a particularly good documentary? I'm not sure I would. But I also wouldn't call it bad. It's interesting. Sometimes fascinating. Frequently uncomfortable. And almost relentlessly weird. If you're interested in Elizabeth Holmes, or simply want to watch one of the more unusual documentaries you're likely to encounter, there's enough here to justify seeing it. Would I spend the money to go so far as to buy it? Absolutely not. A rental is about as far as I'd go, and I'd be perfectly comfortable waiting until it's available on a streaming service I'm already paying for. Nearly three hours later, I wasn't much closer to understanding Elizabeth Holmes. But I had learned something. There are some people you can watch for three hours and still have absolutely no idea what to make of them. Apparently, you can make an entire documentary out of that. ![I Spent Nearly Three Hours With Elizabeth Holmes. I Understand Her Less.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e9/54/e9540ff8-9c7a-495e-932d-5ba71686447c/content/images/2026/10/You-Can-See-Everything-2026-16x9.jpg) ![I Spent Nearly Three Hours With Elizabeth Holmes. I Understand Her Less.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e9/54/e9540ff8-9c7a-495e-932d-5ba71686447c/content/images/2026/10/You-Can-See-Everything-2026-2x3.jpg) ![I Spent Nearly Three Hours With Elizabeth Holmes. 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