No spoilers here – TV’s grand illusionist meets his match when he moves in with Theranos founder and her family
  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20 days

    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.

  • MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.mlEnglish
    20 days

    I saw it today and it was great. I really appreciate a movie that actually leaves room for interpretation. Every 30 minutes or so it felt like the narrative was being turned on its head and it kept me at the edge of my seat like few movies of this length have. Definitely a movie I’ll be thinking about for a while.

  • hexabs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 days

    Why is this movie not planned for release in India.

    Kinda a big English speaking market to skip out on.

  • AgentSeven@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20 days

    The breathless hype this movie is receiving is making me angry, and I’m not entirely certain why.

    • MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.mlEnglish
      20 days

      Lance Oppenheim documentaries are usually very well received, and this one is co-directed and hosted by a very popular celebrity comedian following a famously crazy person. It’s kind of the perfect recipe to make a very popular and well liked documentary.

      • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
        20 days

        What exactly made Holmes crazy? All the billionaires are like her, her mistake was getting caught scamming the billionaire class.

        • MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.mlEnglish
          20 days

          The way she behaved in interviews mostly. This movie makes it even more clear that she is a very unusual person.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        20 days

        Calling Nathan Fielder simply a “popular celebrity comedian” really undersells him. He’s a fucking genius.

    • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      20 days

      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.

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20 days

      The breathless hype this movie is receiving is making me angry, and I’m not entirely certain why.

      Possibly because on a superficial level it comes off as another celebration of an evil doer who actively did truly shitty things, and we’re all bone fucking tired of that.

      I only say that because for myself I’ve been skipping the above Guardian article for several days based on the subject alone, and that is my own reason why. Good to hear there’s more to the movie than that. I like a good documentary, maybe this will be worth watching when it gets to streaming.