Bruh, I can’t even remember for sure the last time I went to the actual movies. Like a movie theater.
It was definitely pre-covid and I think it may have been to see Jordan Peele’s US
Anyway, I went to see this last night and holy shit I think this might be the best movie I’ve ever seen. And I’m so glad I saw it in a movie theater on opening night.
This movie is An Experience.
It started out kinda slow and within the first 20 mins or so I was worried I might end up regretting choosing to spend 3 hours watching a movie about Elizabeth Holmes.
In hindsight, I wonder if that was a trick/illusion of the magician himself, intentionally trying to play with the audience’s mind. Bc almost right after I had that thought I was 100% locked in for the remainder of the movie.
I can’t remember ever sitting through a movie in a theater before where at various points throughout a single movie, my fellow audience members had such a range of shared reactions: laughter, shocked audible gasps, angry wtfs, disgust, empathy. Then when it was all over, (and I mean this in the least sacrilegious way possible) the audience all got up and left in a dazed and heavy silence that I seriously can only compare to my memory of seeing Passion of the Christ.
Anyway, go see this movie.
Nathan Fielder does what he does best, but also gives shades of Alfred Hitchcock. I know that doesn’t sound like a real description, but it is.
I can’t remember ever sitting through a movie in a theater before where at various points throughout a single movie, my fellow audience members had such a range of shared reactions: laughter, shocked audible gasps, angry wtfs, disgust, empathy.
This is the only movie where I’ve said out loud “oh my god” and “what the fuck” in reaction to what was being said on screen. I was so genuinely surprised at some of the reveals.
Bruh, movies have been getting by just fine without you… no one cares but damn it’s been a while bruh! Maybe next time she’ll tell the truth and we can all act similarly mesmerized.
But bruh WOW. Didn’t you see how stuff is before you did??? Bruh… I wonder what Holmes could do bruh she speaks so much bruh… we should all totally watch stuff bruh. You don’t know.
Are you ok?
Sorry I enjoyed the movie bruh 🍿
…Also, I have to ask. Are you Billy Evans?
???
You should check the batteries in your carbon monoxide detector. Bruh
Or just don’t. Either is fine.
The breathless hype this movie is receiving is making me angry, and I’m not entirely certain why.
You’re right to be a little bit skeptical that a movie could actually be as groundbreaking as people seem to be claiming. But I think it lives up to the hype. It’s a documentary, but it’s a documentary like no other I’ve ever seen. It’s a Nathan Fielder work, and there are all sorts of Nathan Fielder characteristics to this film, but the collision between the subject of this documentary and Nathan Fielder’s style is just such an interesting lighting in a bottle type situation, like when physicists finally develop the technology to smash subatomic particles at high momentums against each other, and seeing what comes out of it.
I can’t see how something like this could ever be made again.
The breathless hype this movie is receiving is making me angry, and I’m not entirely certain why.
Possibly because on a superficial level it comes off as another celebration of an evil doer who actively did truly shitty things, and we’re all bone fucking tired of that.
I only say that because for myself I’ve been skipping the above Guardian article for several days based on the subject alone, and that is my own reason why. Good to hear there’s more to the movie than that. I like a good documentary, maybe this will be worth watching when it gets to streaming.
Lance Oppenheim documentaries are usually very well received, and this one is co-directed and hosted by a very popular celebrity comedian following a famously crazy person. It’s kind of the perfect recipe to make a very popular and well liked documentary.
Calling Nathan Fielder simply a “popular celebrity comedian” really undersells him. He’s a fucking genius.
What exactly made Holmes crazy? All the billionaires are like her, her mistake was getting caught scamming the billionaire class.
The way she behaved in interviews mostly. This movie makes it even more clear that she is a very unusual person.
