Directed by: Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim
Written by: No writing credit (documentary)
Starring: Elizabeth Holmes, Nathan Fielder, Billy Evans
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt45368240/
In this episode of Mindframes, Michael and Dave discuss You Can See Everything (2026), the A24 documentary in which Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim move in with Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans in the 34 days before she reports to prison.
The discussion explores what Fielder and Oppenheim each bring to the partnership, whether a film this staged still counts as a documentary, how Holmes compares to her portrayal in The Dropout, and whether she is a fraud, delusional, or both. Along the way they compare the film to the work of Errol Morris and Werner Herzog, Primetime, Dick Johnson Is Dead, and Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. Both hosts give it five stars, though Michael says the fifth was especially hard won.
You Can See Everything explores the gap between access and knowledge: total access, zero knowledge.
The film gives us more of Elizabeth Holmes than anyone has ever had, at home, on the beach, with her kids, inches from the camera, and she only gets harder to read the closer it gets. Michael and Dave ask whether she is unknowable because people always are, or because she has made herself that way, and whether a filmmaker who openly shapes the story can still get any closer to the truth.
| Time | Segment |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | Intro & setup |
| 01:26 | The synopsis and the Elizabeth Holmes story so far |
| 05:32 | The central question: how do you ever really know a person? |
| 07:10 | Directors: Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim |
| 13:58 | Is there a cast in a documentary? Errol Morris, Herzog, and the blurred line |
| 26:02 | Technical analysis: the close-ups, the light, and the pacing |
| 34:14 | Spoiler-free reviews |
| 45:31 | Spoiler section begins |
| 47:24 | The Dropout, Dr. Phyllis Gardner, and fraud vs. delusion |
| 56:26 | The re-creations and what dramatization owes the truth |
| 1:10:25 | Malice, denial, and following the money |
| 1:17:20 | The beach, the kids, and the "you can see everything" text |
| 1:21:06 | Saw a lady in half: David Fear's magic-trick metaphor |
| 1:22:06 | Is this a "pure" documentary? Honesty vs. objectivity |
| 1:28:29 | When re-creations work: Naza and The Voice of Hind Rajab |
| 1:32:51 | Final interpretation |
| 1:36:25 | Closing thoughts |
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