Wednesday, 11 November 2026

"...the souls of these people are an abyss of emptiness."

"At this point in the film, most audience members realise that they’ve been played. Just like the tv show 'Seinfeld,' 'You Can See Everything' is a movie about nothing.

"You Can See Everything' is a symbolic motif for millennial postmodernism. [Theranos's disgraced Elizabeth] Holmes, [her partner Billy] Evans, and [the film's director Nathan] Fielder represent a unique generation in world history that grew up with wealth, were always told that they’re special and important, that the norms and rules that apply to ordinary people don’t apply to them, that reality doesn’t really exist, that lying is in accord with non-reality, that their unique role in human civilisation puts them beyond good and evil, and that a documentary about their lives is no less fake. Nothing is real but somehow everything is transparent. The only thing that is transparent in this fan fiction film is that it makes clear just how vacuous and self-serving postmodern millennials really are.

"This fictional account of the lives of Elizabeth Holmes, Billy Evans, and Nathan Fielder really should have been titled, 'You Can See Nothing.' The fact is we really do see nothing because the souls of these people are an abyss of emptiness. It’s a journey into nothingness. There’s no there, there! ...

"My strong reaction to this movie is, in part, informed by the fact that I know these kinds of people all too well. They’re the product of America’s most elite universities. They inhabit Silicon Valley and the world I live in, which is among the reasons why I hated this movie so much. Just as Elizabeth Holmes ruined Theranos, so her academic paramours are ruining what could and should have been the pinnacle of Western civilisation. ...

"The film provides no insight into Holmes’s fraud and the damage it did, and no trace of common human decency, such as remorse, shame, privacy, or even responsibility to and for one’s children. Quite unintentionally, the movie is the autobiography of a 'look at me, look at me, look at me' generation of denatured, power-lusting eunuchs, who want to cosplay their pretend trans-historical importance. But in the end, there is only the polished vacuity of a generation that was taught to like itself first and foremost and that lying in the pursuit of fame and fortune is ok. (This applies to [the film's director] as much as it does to Holmes and Evans.)"
~ The Redneck Intellectual from 'You Can See Nothing' his film review of You Can See Everything

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