“If I may offer a suggestion, everything is fine. You’re happy. The economy is great and standard of living is better than ever.”

Apparently the super close up thing is kind of the co-director’s calling card for all of his documentaries.

Also pretty sure Nathan Fielder is ND. If not he’s a hell of an actor. I don’t know if you saw The Curse or the Rehearsal, but he’s a lot deeper than just comedy.

This will probably piss you off more, but it’s one of those things where it’s kind of impossible to predict what your expectations should be going in and that’s a big part of why it’s enjoyable.

Don’t want to spoil it for you but you should leave the movie with broad questions about truth, human nature, memory, and bias/perception in general moreso than gaining definitive answers about the subject of the documentary.

Will you be able to go about life just fine if you don’t see it or wait until it’s streaming? Yes.

Is it a surprisingly good movie that’s worth the cost of a ticket and 3 hours of attention? Yes.

Honestly would like to know if you do end up seeing it and manage to still hold on to that singular feeling of anger while sitting through this movie.

Sorry I enjoyed the movie bruh 🍿

…Also, I have to ask. Are you Billy Evans?

Bruh, I can’t even remember for sure the last time I went to the actual movies. Like a movie theater.

It was definitely pre-covid and I think it may have been to see Jordan Peele’s US

Anyway, I went to see this last night and holy shit I think this might be the best movie I’ve ever seen. And I’m so glad I saw it in a movie theater on opening night.

This movie is An Experience.

It started out kinda slow and within the first 20 mins or so I was worried I might end up regretting choosing to spend 3 hours watching a movie about Elizabeth Holmes.

In hindsight, I wonder if that was a trick/illusion of the magician himself, intentionally trying to play with the audience’s mind. Bc almost right after I had that thought I was 100% locked in for the remainder of the movie.

I can’t remember ever sitting through a movie in a theater before where at various points throughout a single movie, my fellow audience members had such a range of shared reactions: laughter, shocked audible gasps, angry wtfs, disgust, empathy. Then when it was all over, (and I mean this in the least sacrilegious way possible) the audience all got up and left in a dazed and heavy silence that I seriously can only compare to my memory of seeing Passion of the Christ.

Anyway, go see this movie.

Nathan Fielder does what he does best, but also gives shades of Alfred Hitchcock. I know that doesn’t sound like a real description, but it is.