Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s sublime documentary, You Can See Everything , has established itself as nothing short of a cultural seismic event. The three-hour brain melter that’s taken over the discourse had an historic opening weekend at the box office , kept the momentum going during its second weekend expansion to 2,655 screens, and is already being positioned to map uncharted territory at next year’s Academy Awards . All this with a logline that almost feels cheekily quaint once you’ve seen it: Fielder encamps with disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and her family during her last weeks of freedom leading up to the start of her 11-year federal prison sentence.
I went into my YCSE screening with no expectations for what was about to happen, content to just sit back and let the maestro work.…