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You really thought you were cooking something here with this observation on level of "Wait a minute, people on the screen aren't real they're just a series of pictures!!"

Help, I saw a beautiful documentary and now I’m in the hospital.

y'all never heard of errol morris?

tyler is a little slow huh

Off*

Third base!

It’s dangerous?….stfu

The Future of Truth is a great read.

I still love that Herzog regrets once speaking French to avoid getting shot. It's the most aggressively Herzog stance he's ever taken.

The thing to remember is that every Nathan Fielder documentary is really a documentary about documentaries, and whatever happens to be the subject is really just a vehicle toward that end. You Can See Everything is *about* the exact limitations of the form described in this piece, IMO.

Oh, Theranos. I thought they had adapted Patrick Stewart's script.

Of course she is......

Oh sorry not pay walled, I have to make an account and give you my information so you can sell it, no thank you.

Whatever you call the film, the science was never ambiguous. A few drops of finger-prick blood can't reliably run hundreds of tests: tiny volumes, plus tissue fluid diluting the sample. Lab medicine people were sceptical early on. The real story is how long nobody listened.

I thought she came out looking like the world's most dishonest person. And also a little insane.

The character he was playing in the film did. If he really had been charmed by her none of that stuff would have made it into the film.

Right, and guys, he put it right there in the title: You can *see* the truth(s) just by watching. He shows you all of it, makes her respond to questions with a perseverance no one else has attempted. If you emerge from this movie with more sympathy for her, you get an F in human communication.

Documentaries are like jazz. It's not the things you record on camera. It's the things you don't record on camera.

SHOUOLD HAVE CALLED IT YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING but as a metaphor THEN

Sure he might know more about the science of health… but does he understand anything about media criticism?

He has a limited media education. Just like folks who think college should be vocational, people think documentary is journalism and not a style of filmmaking.

feel like you gotta have some leeway for somebody that she personally tried to destroy (and nearly did with legal fees alone) so I don't blame him for not being normal about this

Something being about both it's main subject and other, more abstract parts of society is literally the opposite of "shallow".

It's actually fine for the *Theranos whistleblower* to say this and everyone rushing in to prove what a superior art understander they are should be fuckin embarrassed. Lmfao.

I think she is a sociopath who should never get out of jail. Every time I see videos of her speaking, it feels like the start of a horror movie. She always looks excited to tell more lies. I don't think she has ever told the truth about anything in her entire life.

Can you guys maybe take Tyler aside and explain to him what Films are and how they work? He seems to be under the impression that Documentaries are News reports.

Maybe it was the part where you can only see about 30% of EH’e face. Maybe it was the cropping off the text. Who can say?

This sort of reaction to the movie is a great bellwether for just how braindead a person is.

Fielder assumes a more intelligent audience than Tyler does

Holy shit, you really don't need any media literacy to be a film critic these days do you

Ok

Why would she deceive you?

Does that book has a name you might be willing to share? 🙏

A documentary CAN be objective, just like the Theranos machine CAN perform any test.

What do you think are the actual topics at hand

As I watched it, I noted just how often Holmes smiled. Anyone who smiles that much can't be trusted. I felt early on Nathan had become infatuated with Holmes and not long after also infatuated with Billy. Amanda Seyfreid had Nathan's number at the end.

Do YOU know what a documentary is?

Can’t access the article so can’t comment. I doubt most commenters have read the text, as is common

The lede describes what a documentary is lmao

I hope you feel very stupid for publishing this.

This is embarrassing

No, it's definitely a documentary. Do you know what that word means? Seriously undermines the credibility of a whistleblower to lie like that.

Tyler is a poster child for why you shouldn't let people get STEM degrees without doing a few liberal arts electives

Tyler I don't think you saw everything bud

Documentaries are those grainy videos shown on public access channels at 4am. The film reels you saw in 3rd grade. Dick Proenneke building a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness for 30 years. Like all the sensational garbage on Netflix about haunted houses this month, this one is docutainment.

Is all the analysis at your substack this bad or is this an outlier

When I found out documentary has an angel was Super Size me when he goes to the doctor and the doctor is freaking out like his liver is shot due to be a secret alcoholic and trying to blame McDonald’s for his recent diet change. People need to learn unreliable narrator