theranos

Reposted from Letterboxd because I wound up writing a thousand words on this sucker and I figured that was worth a blog post. This is not a review of the movie because it’s impossible to just talk about what’s going on up on the screen. Like all of Nathan Fielder’s work, it exists in conversation with our cultural moment. It’s not a movie about Elizabeth Holmes, it’s a movie about how we have reacted to Elizabeth Holmes over the course of the last decade. We will always be reacting to Elizabeth Holmes, I guess. A thousand years from now historians will be talking about the strange fertility goddess/demoness Holm, and her relationships with a series of violent war gods. ...