‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Nathan Fielder’s Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Nathan Fielder’s Documentary About Elizabeth Holmes Is a Shameless, Fascinating, Reality-TV-Eats-Its-Tail Look at Entitled Duplicity 影评：《You Can See Everything》：内森·菲尔德关于伊丽莎白·霍姆斯的纪录片，是一部厚颜无耻、引人入胜、充满“真人秀自我吞噬”感的特权欺诈观察。

It’s a hangout-movie portrait of the Theranos fraudster, which is really Fielder’s way of asking: What makes someone like Elizabeth Holmes tick? 这是一部关于 Theranos 诈骗犯的“闲逛式”电影肖像，实际上是菲尔德在追问：是什么驱动着像伊丽莎白·霍姆斯这样的人？

In a world where Lindsay Clancy can inspire an onslaught of sympathetic voyeuristic fascination, why not Elizabeth Holmes? 在一个连琳赛·克兰西（Lindsay Clancy）都能引发一波同情式窥淫癖狂热的世界里，为什么伊丽莎白·霍姆斯不能呢？

Earlier tonight, the screening of an unannounced mystery movie at the Telluride Film Festival generated every bit as much pre-screening buzz as any of the major titles programmed here. 今晚早些时候，特柳赖德电影节上一部未预告的神秘电影放映，引发了与电影节任何重磅影片不相上下的映前热议。

And when the movie was revealed to be “You Can See Everything,” a 174-minute documentary, co-directed by the cult comedian Nathan Fielder, about Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos who is now serving an 11-year prison sentence after being convicted of defrauding her investors, the sensation of “WTF? I’ve got to watch this!” did not subside as the movie went on. It only intensified. 当这部电影被揭晓为《You Can See Everything》时——一部由邪典喜剧演员内森·菲尔德联合执导、时长 174 分钟的纪录片，讲述了 Theranos 前首席执行官伊丽莎白·霍姆斯的故事（她因欺诈投资者被判处 11 年监禁），那种“搞什么鬼？我一定要看！”的震撼感在电影放映过程中从未消退，反而愈演愈烈。

“You Can See Everything” is just about the furthest thing from a “pure” documentary you’ve ever seen. That’s part of its appeal — it’s a one-of-a-kind reality-TV-as-hangout-movie psychodrama circus. 《You Can See Everything》几乎是你所见过的最不“纯粹”的纪录片。这正是它的魅力所在——它是一场独一无二的、将真人秀转化为“闲逛式电影”的心理剧马戏团。

Yet it’s been made with a spirit of true inquiry, driven by Fielder’s acidly quizzical personality (as an onscreen interviewer, he’s got the most drop-dead deadpan since Steven Wright), and it gets its hooks in you. 然而，它是在一种真正的探究精神下制作的，由菲尔德那种尖刻而充满质疑的个性所驱动（作为屏幕采访者，他拥有自史蒂文·赖特以来最冷峻的冷面幽默），它会让你深深着迷。

Fielder isn’t here to throw open the question of Elizabeth Holmes’ guilt. He wants to know what made her tick. 菲尔德此行并非为了探讨伊丽莎白·霍姆斯是否有罪。他想知道是什么在驱动她。

But why, you may ask, is the comedian behind shows like “The Curse” and “The Rehearsal” making a three-hour movie about the woman who became America’s youngest self-made female billionaire by convincing the world that she’d created a revolutionary new means of blood testing? 但你可能会问，为什么这位制作了《诅咒》和《排练》等节目的喜剧演员，要花三个小时拍摄一部关于这个女人的电影？她曾通过说服全世界自己发明了一种革命性的血液检测方法，成为了美国最年轻的白手起家女性亿万富翁。

Holmes, after her conviction, stayed out of the public eye, but shortly before her prison sentence was set to begin she decided she wanted someone to document her last days of freedom. Maybe she wanted to have her say? 霍姆斯在定罪后一直远离公众视线，但在刑期开始前不久，她决定找人记录她最后的自由时光。也许她是想为自己辩解？

Whatever the motivation, Fielder, who has often operated in a nether zone between fiction and reality, was looking for a project to collaborate on with Lance Oppenheim, a documentarian he’d become friendly with. (He’s the film’s co-director.) 无论动机如何，经常游走于虚构与现实边缘的菲尔德，当时正在寻找一个与他结识的纪录片导演兰斯·奥本海姆合作的项目。（奥本海姆是该片的联合导演。）

And so, with the support of A24, and without quite knowing what they were after (or, by their own admission, what the hell they were doing), the two of them stepped into the breach. 于是，在 A24 的支持下，在并不完全清楚他们追求什么（或者用他们自己的话说，不知道自己在搞什么鬼）的情况下，两人踏入了这一领域。

Thirty-four days before the start of Holmes’ prison sentence, in 2023, they brought a camera crew to the spacious wood-paneled beachside home in Del Mar where she was living with her partner, the California hotel heir Billy Evans, and their two children (including an infant daughter). 2023 年，在霍姆斯刑期开始前 34 天，他们带着摄制组来到了德尔马一栋宽敞的木镶板海滨住宅，她当时正与伴侣——加州酒店业继承人比利·埃文斯，以及他们的两个孩子（包括一个婴儿女儿）住在这里。

Fielder was there to hang out, observe, and interview Holmes, trying to get inside her head. That proved to be a weirder and wilder journey than anyone might have expected. 菲尔德在那里闲逛、观察并采访霍姆斯，试图走进她的内心世界。事实证明，这比任何人预想的都要更怪异、更疯狂。

The Elizabeth Holmes we see has a winsome soft presence, with a Cupid’s-bow grin and eyes that beam without blinking too much. She resembles the ’80s and ’90s actress Kim Greist, and has a manner that’s disarming in its gentleness. 我们看到的伊丽莎白·霍姆斯有一种迷人而柔和的气质，有着丘比特弓形的微笑，双眼闪烁且不常眨动。她长得像 80 和 90 年代的演员金·格雷斯特，举止温和得让人放下戒备。

Yet when Fielder asks about the crimes she was convicted of, she pleads a strange kind of ignorance. She claims she did nothing wrong, and it’s clear she believes it. But how is that possible? 然而，当菲尔德问及她被定罪的罪行时，她表现出一种奇怪的无知。她声称自己没有做错任何事，而且很明显她对此深信不疑。但这怎么可能呢？

In 2015, Holmes had become a celebrity entrepreneur, based on the $9 billion valuation of her health technology company, Theranos — a company that turned out to have been built on a complete scam. 2015 年，霍姆斯凭借其健康科技公司 Theranos 90 亿美元的估值，成为了明星企业家——而这家公司最终被证明是建立在一个彻头彻尾的骗局之上。

For a brief time, Holmes convinced the world that she’d developed a revolutionary device for blood testing that required very small volumes of blood, such as the amount you’d get from a pinprick. She convinced top-drawer investors (including Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison) to pour millions of dollars into the company. 在短暂的时间里，霍姆斯说服了全世界，声称她开发了一种革命性的血液检测设备，只需要极少量的血液，比如针刺取血的量。她成功说服了顶级投资者（包括鲁珀特·默多克和拉里·埃里森）向该公司投入数百万美元。

For credibility, she assembled a board of directors that included such ancient luminaries as George P. Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and James Mattis. There was only one problem: the “revolutionary” technology didn’t exist. 为了增加可信度，她组建了一个董事会，成员包括乔治·舒尔茨、亨利·基辛格和詹姆斯·马蒂斯等资深名流。但有一个问题：这项“革命性”的技术根本不存在。

Numerous experts, starting with the Stanford medical professor Phyllis Gardner, told Holmes that her idea wouldn’t work; you couldn’t mine voluminous amounts of data from just a few droplets of blood. But Holmes, along with her business partner, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani (who was also her romantic partner), sold the deception anyway. 包括斯坦福大学医学教授菲利斯·加德纳在内的多位专家都告诉霍姆斯，她的想法行不通；你不可能从几滴血中提取出海量的数据。但霍姆斯和她的商业伙伴拉梅什·“桑尼”·巴尔瓦尼（也是她的恋人）还是执意兜售了这个骗局。

For a short while they were quite “successful” at it, though in hindsight it’s clear that the castle in the air they built — all spun out of the trendy idea that medical science could be democratized — was destined to crash and burn. Because it was all made up! 在短时间内，他们确实“成功”了，尽管事后看来，他们建立的空中楼阁——完全基于“医学科学可以民主化”这一时髦理念——注定会崩塌。因为这一切都是编造的！

Holmes had spun the pinprick idea out of her own fear of needles. This was her fantasy, elevated into an invention that didn’t actually exist. So how can she defend herself now? 霍姆斯是因为自己怕针，才编造了针刺取血的想法。这是她的幻想，被提升为一项实际上并不存在的发明。那么她现在该如何为自己辩护呢？

What she tells Fielder, with an implacable conviction that suggests a belief in her own narrative that’s nothing short of monomaniacal, is that the device patented by Theranos, which she sold as “the iPod of health care,” could, in fact, host any blood test that existed. The only thing they hadn’t quite worked out was the chemistry that would go into the tests. In other words, the device was… 她以一种不可动摇的信念告诉菲尔德（这种信念暗示她对自己的叙事有着近乎偏执的执着），Theranos 申请专利的设备——她将其称为“医疗界的 iPod”——实际上可以进行任何现有的血液检测。他们唯一没搞定的就是检测所需的化学成分。换句话说，该设备是……