The Theranos whistleblower believes Nathan Fielder’s documentary about Elizabeth Holmes deliberately omitted key facts about the founder’s history of deception to make for a more compelling film.
“You Can See Everything” follows the Theranos founder in the weeks leading up to her prison sentence for defrauding investors in her blood-testing company.
“Citizen McCain” host Meghan McCain said that she felt like Holmes was portrayed as a more sympathetic figure than she was comfortable with, citing the use of her children and breast feeding in the documentary.
Tyler Shultz argued that it was intentional for Fielder’s more artistic style of documentary filmmaking.
“It would not have been an interesting film if he just took her to the slaughterhouse, which would have been easy to do,” the whistleblower said.
He said the film’s central question was whether Holmes is a liar, but argued that a broader examination of the facts would have made it easy to establish her history of intentional deception.
In the film, Fielder asks Holmes directly whether she has ever told a lie, even a small fib. She says she does not believe she has.
“There are so many instances of her just blatantly lying where it would just kind ruin the film,” Shultz argued.”So to make an interesting film, they chose to ignore the truth.”
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