America is perpetually reaching for the green light of Daisy Buchanan's porch. A perfect place, innocent and filled with the romance and recognition we are surely entitled to. If only... the device worked. If only... she wasn't lying. If only... the press and the media were fair. If only... they could truly see me, in all my fulfillment and glory.
And so we take on the trappings of that life that we so deeply desire. We obsfucate and overpromise. We rationalize the danger signs we hear in the back of our head. We begin to live in a lie in pursuit of money and status. Everyone makes these compromises - but so many these days feel license to take it so much further. In this respect Elizabeth Holmes is a prophet of the age.
Which is why the "twist" in this film is both surprising (I gasped) and completely necessary. The story could not be told without our prophet's greatest interpreter.
But this is just one of the many ways that You Can See Everything brilliantly lives in the uncanny cognitive valley of 21st century life. It interrogates alternative facts and reality distortion fields and their unceasing ability to get smart, moral people to empathize with complete and utter sociopaths.
Are we so starved for true connection and love - that even the smartest are willing to accept the simulacrum? Is there any hope for finally shoveling away the bullshit?
Nathan Fielder gives us no easy answers.
A masterpiece that reinvents the form. The movie of the year. Give everyone all the awards.