How ‘You Can See Everything’ unmasks our modern age of manufactured reality 

Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder’s “You Can See Everything” is a movie for our times — not only because it is the rare documentary with box office appeal and Oscar buzz, but because it strikes at something in the culture of this century that almost defies description. 

The film centers on the Theranos debacle of the last decade and how someone like Elizabeth Holmes tries to repair a private and public life after being classified as one of the business world’s biggest frauds. But in a larger sense, it is also about the gnawing unease and increasing difficulty we are all experiencing in our own lives as we contend with today’s grift economy, in a world of diffuse media, algorithmic filter bubbles and infinite forums for people to speak their version of the truth.  

“You Can See Everything” also homes in on the prized ethos of “fake it ‘til you make it” that now defines business and startup culture. Holmes was one of the most flagrant Steve Jobs clones, right up to the turtleneck, applying her brand of magical thinking to blood testing the way others did to apps or digital currencies or virtual worlds or artificial intelligence. 

But what happens when such magical thinking extends to fraud, billions’ worth of investment, and the corruption of medicine, a field whose very foundation is “do no harm?” Or when your belief that a piece of technology might be able to........

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