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Film: You Can See Everything

Tons to say about the film, but what stood out most was how utterly banal and pointless all her "inventions" and "business" ideas seemed (to me anyway). When Fielder asked about what the Theranos device did - she kept repeating it could "perform any chemistry tests known to the cloud." I came away thinking to myself - so this thing can connect to the internet? Isn't this literally what every device can do? The film spent three hours with a woman who has apparently devoted her life to inventing things, but as far as I could tell, her next big thing is she and her husband are re-branding Theranos with some updated tech. My takeaway is that a lot of Silicon Valley startup culture are simply scams.

The other thing that struck me was the ending dissection of Holmes's marriage to her obviously quite strange husband by Seyfried and Fielder. The detail that stands out like a sore thumb is that both Seyfried and Fielder were both single (for obviously very different and visible reasons) and here they are spending a great deal of energy critiquing and dissecting a relationship that is surviving - maybe even thriving - if you count the births of young children - despite a prison sentence. We the audience are pulled into their psychoanalysis, but the implied ending of the film, is that this autistic never-in-her-life-liar's marriage to a borderline psychopath is a pretty good outcome for them on a spiritual level and the genius filmmaker and beautiful actress are both quite alone and melancholy despite their worldliness. All she has her horses and their farts and he, memories of the ocean. 

Makes you wonder.