【文章标题】:《你可以看到一切》影评:内森·菲尔德关于伊丽莎白·霍姆斯的纪录片

【文章正文】: In a world where Lindsay Clancy can inspire an onslaught of sympathetic voyeuristic fascination, why not Elizabeth Holmes? 在这个连林赛·克兰西都能引发同情性窥淫癖狂热的世界里,伊丽莎白·霍姆斯为何不能?

Earlier tonight, the screening of an unannounced mystery movie at the Telluride Film Festival generated every bit as much pre-screening buzz as any of the major titles programmed here. 今夜稍早,特柳赖德电影节上一部未公开的神秘影片放映,引发的映前热议丝毫不亚于任何一部正式参展的大片。

And when the movie was revealed to be “You Can See Everything,” a 174-minute documentary, co-directed by the cult comedian Nathan Fielder, about Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos who is now serving an 11-year prison sentence after being convicted of defrauding her investors, the sensation of “WTF? I’ve got to watch this!” did not subside as the movie went on. It only intensified. 当影片揭晓为174分钟的纪录片《你可以看到一切》——由邪典喜剧演员内森·菲尔德联合执导,讲述因欺诈投资者被判11年监禁的前Theranos首席执行官伊丽莎白·霍姆斯的故事时,那种”什么鬼?我必须看这个!“的震撼感随着影片推进不仅没有消退,反而愈加强烈。

“You Can See Everything” is just about the furthest thing from a “pure” documentary you’ve ever seen. 《你可以看到一切》几乎是你所能见到最不”纯粹”的纪录片。

That’s part of its appeal — it’s a one-of-a-kind reality-TV-as-hangout-movie psychodrama circus. 这正是其魅力所在——它是将真人秀、聚会电影和心理剧马戏团熔于一炉的独特存在。

Yet it’s been made with a spirit of true inquiry, driven by Fielder’s acidly quizzical personality (as an onscreen interviewer, he’s got the most drop-dead deadpan since Steven Wright), and it gets its hooks in you. 但影片贯穿着真正的探究精神,菲尔德尖锐诘问的个性(作为出镜采访者,他有着自史蒂文·赖特以来最致命的冷面幽默)推动着叙事,让你深陷其中。

Fielder isn’t here to throw open the question of Elizabeth Holmes’ guilt. He wants to know what made her tick. 菲尔德并非要重新讨论霍姆斯的罪责问题。他想知道是什么驱动着她。

But why, you may ask, is the comedian behind shows like “The Curse” and “The Rehearsal” making a three-hour movie about the woman who became America’s youngest self-made female billionaire by convincing the world that she’d created a revolutionary new means of blood testing? 但你或许会问:为何《诅咒》《排练》等节目的喜剧导演要花三小时拍这个女人?她曾通过让世界相信发明了革命性验血技术,成为美国最年轻白手起家女富豪。

Holmes, after her conviction, stayed out of the public eye, but shortly before her prison sentence was set to begin she decided she wanted someone to document her last days of freedom. Maybe she wanted to have her say? 定罪后的霍姆斯远离公众视野,但在刑期开始前不久,她决定找人记录自己最后的自由时光。或许她想发声?

Whatever the motivation, Fielder, who has often operated in a nether zone between fiction and reality, was looking for a project to collaborate on with Lance Oppenheim, a documentarian he’d become friendly with. 无论动机如何,常在虚实夹缝中游走的菲尔德正寻找与交好的纪录片导演兰斯·奥本海默合作的项目。

And so, with the support of A24, and without quite knowing what they were after (or, by their own admission, what the hell they were doing), the two of them stepped into the breach. 于是在A24支持下,两人在并不完全清楚目标(用他们自己的话说”根本不知道在搞什么”)的情况下挺身而出。

Thirty-five days before the start of Holmes’ prison sentence, in 2023, they brought a camera crew to the spacious wood-paneled beachside home in Del Mar where she was living with her partner, the California hotel heir Billy Evans, and their two children (including an infant daughter). 2023年,在霍姆斯入狱前35天,他们带着摄制组来到德尔马那间宽敞的木质海滨住宅——她与加州酒店业继承人比利·埃文斯伴侣及两个孩子(包括尚在襁褓的女儿)的居所。

Fielder was there to hang out, observe, and interview Holmes, trying to get inside her head. That proved to be a weirder and wilder journey than anyone might have expected. 菲尔德的任务是相处、观察并采访霍姆斯,试图窥探其内心。这被证明是比任何人预期都更离奇的旅程。

The Elizabeth Holmes we see has a winsome soft presence, with a Cupid’s-bow grin and eyes that beam without blinking too much. 我们看到的霍姆斯有着迷人的柔和气质,带着丘比特之弓般的微笑,眼睛熠熠生辉却不频繁眨眼。

She resembles the ’80s and ’90s actress Kim Greist, and has a manner that’s disarming in its gentleness. 她神似八九十年代女星金·格雷斯特,举手投足间带着令人卸下心防的温柔。

Yet when Fielder asks about the crimes she was convicted of, she pleads a strange kind of ignorance. 但当菲尔德问及她被定罪的罪行时,她却表现出一种古怪的无知状态。

She claims she did nothing wrong, and it’s clear she believes it. But how is that possible? 她坚称自己没错,且显然对此深信不疑。但这怎么可能?

In 2015, Holmes had become a celebrity entrepreneur, based on the $9 billion valuation of her health technology company, Theranos — a company that turned out to have been built on a complete scam. 2015年,霍姆斯凭借估值90亿美元的健康科技公司Theranos成为明星企业家——后来证明这家公司完全建立在骗局之上。

For a brief time, Holmes convinced the world that she’d developed a revolutionary device for blood testing that required very small volumes of blood, such as the amount you’d get from a pinprick. 有段时间,她让全世界相信研发出了革命性验血设备——仅需针尖大小的血量。

She convinced top-drawer investors (including Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison) to pour millions of dollars into the company. 她说服顶级投资者(包括鲁伯特·默多克和拉里·埃里森)向公司投入数百万美元。

For credibility, she assembled a board of directors that included such ancient luminaries as George P. Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and James Mattis. 为建立公信力,她组建了包括乔治·舒尔茨、亨利·基辛格和詹姆斯·马蒂斯等元老级人物的董事会。

There was only one problem: the “revolutionary” technology didn’t exist. 唯一的问题是:这项”革命性”技术根本不存在。

Numerous experts, starting with the Stanford medical professor Phyllis Gardner, told Holmes that her idea wouldn’t work; you couldn’t mine voluminous amounts of data from just a few droplets of blood. 从斯坦福医学教授菲利斯·加德纳开始,众多专家告诉霍姆斯这想法行不通:无法从几滴血中提取海量数据。

But Holmes, along with her business partner, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani (who was also her romantic partner), sold the deception anyway. 但霍姆斯与商业伙伴兼情人拉梅什·“桑尼”·巴尔瓦尼仍推销着这个骗局。

For a short while they were quite “successful” at it, though in hindsight it’s clear that the castle in the air they built — all spun out of the trendy idea that medical science could be democratized — was destined to crash and burn. 短期内他们相当”成功”,但事后看来,他们基于”医疗科学可民主化”这一时髦概念建造的空中楼阁注定崩塌。

Because it was all made up! Holmes had spun the pinprick idea out of her own fear of needles. 因为全是编造的!霍姆斯从自身对针头的恐惧中编织出”微量采血”概念。

This was her fantasy, elevated into an invention that didn’t actually exist. 这是她的幻想,被拔高为根本不存在的发明。

So how can she defend herself now? What she tells Fielder, with an implacable conviction that suggests a belief in her own narrative that’s nothing short of monomaniacal, is that the device patented by Theranos, which she sold as “the iPod of health care,” could, in fact, host any blood test that existed. 那么她现在如何自辩?她用近乎偏执的坚定信念告诉菲尔德:Theranos专利设备(她曾宣传为”医疗保健界的iPod”)其实能进行任何现有验血项目。

The only thing they hadn’t quite worked out was the chemistry that would go into the tests. In other wor… 唯一没完全攻克的是检测所需的化学反应。换句话…