Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’
“You Can See Everything” is already a box office sensation, with a $15 million opening weekend (based on Sunday estimates). That’s the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film. The nearly three-hour movie — first revealed last month at a secretive screening at the Telluride Film Festival — is only playing in 855 theaters this weekend. (In contrast, the weekend’s number one movie, “Street Fighter,” is playing in 3,575.)
《You Can See Everything》已经成为票房轰动之作，首周末票房收入达 1500 万美元（基于周日的估算）。这是纪录片史上第二高的首周末票房成绩。这部时长近三小时的电影上个月首次在特柳赖德电影节的一次秘密放映中亮相，本周末仅在 855 家影院上映。（相比之下，本周末排名第一的电影《街头霸王》在 3575 家影院上映。）
But it had a reported 2,000 sellout screenings, and the reviews are overwhelmingly positive; “You Can See Everything” currently has a score of 99% on both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. The story of Elizabeth Holmes’ rise and fall — founding blood-testing startup Theranos, attracting support from many of Silicon Valley’s biggest names, then ultimately being sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors — has already been told in books, podcasts, TV shows, and other documentaries.
但据报道，该片有 2000 场放映座无虚席，且影评极其正面；《You Can See Everything》目前在“烂番茄”和 Metacritic 网站上的评分均为 99%。伊丽莎白·霍姆斯（Elizabeth Holmes）的兴衰史——创立血液检测初创公司 Theranos，吸引了硅谷许多大人物的支持，最终因欺诈投资者被判入狱 11 年——此前已在书籍、播客、电视节目和其他纪录片中被讲述过。
But “You Can See Everything”’s filmmakers were given extensive access to Holmes and her family in the month before she went to jail, and the involvement of “The Rehearsal” creator Nathan Fielder — who co-directed the film with Lance Oppenheim — made the whole thing even more intriguing. While I haven’t seen the movie myself, I can at least attest to the difficulty of finding tickets in Manhattan: I spent a good chunk of yesterday trying to find a screening for tonight, and I found exactly one with seats available that weren’t in the front row. (Yes, of course I’m going.)
但《You Can See Everything》的制作人在霍姆斯入狱前的一个月里获得了与她及其家人深入接触的机会，而《排练》（The Rehearsal）的创作者内森·菲尔德（Nathan Fielder）——他与兰斯·奥本海姆（Lance Oppenheim）共同执导了这部电影——的参与，使整件事变得更加引人入胜。虽然我还没看过这部电影，但我至少可以证明在曼哈顿买票有多难：我昨天花了大半天时间试图找今晚的场次，结果只找到一场还有非前排座位的票。（是的，我当然会去。）
TechCrunch’s Amanda Silberling already got to see it on Thursday. She wrote that the enigmatic Holmes finally seems to have met her match in Fielder, a deadpan comedian who’s arguably just as strange and mysterious as she is. Fielder’s month with Holmes is apparently just the beginning of what sounds like an increasingly surreal, metatextual odyssey.
TechCrunch 的阿曼达·西尔伯林（Amanda Silberling）周四已经看过了这部电影。她写道，神秘的霍姆斯似乎终于遇到了对手——菲尔德，这位冷面喜剧演员可以说和她一样古怪且神秘。菲尔德与霍姆斯相处的那个月，显然只是这场听起来愈发超现实、元叙事旅程的开始。
The discussion around “You Can See Everything” may be making it harder for other tech-centric films to break through. Aaron Sorkin’s “Social Network” follow-up “The Social Reckoning” opened to a disappointing $5.5 million last weekend, and has already fallen entirely out of the top 10. And Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary “Musk” — hampered, perhaps, by resistance from social platforms and a four-hour runtime — made only $306,702 this weekend.
围绕《You Can See Everything》的讨论可能让其他以科技为主题的电影更难突围。阿伦·索尔金（Aaron Sorkin）继《社交网络》后的作品《社会清算》（The Social Reckoning）上周末开画票房仅为令人失望的 550 万美元，且已完全跌出前十名。而亚历克斯·吉布尼（Alex Gibney）时长四小时的纪录片《马斯克》（Musk）——或许受限于社交平台的抵制和四小时的时长——本周末仅收获 306,702 美元。