learning journal #10
After watching You Can See Everything , I somehow left more confused about Elizabeth Holmes than when I started. I genuinely cannot decide whether she is a master manipulator who has perfected controlling how others perceive her, or someone who has become so disconnected from reality that she truly believes her own version of events. Either possibility is disturbing to me. One scene that particularly stuck with me was when Nathan Fielder showed her the classic "Who's on First?" comedy routine, and she seemingly couldn't understand the joke. It made me question whether even something as insignificant as not understanding a joke could be an act. She knows she's being filmed, so how much of what we're seeing is actually genuine? But at the same time, maintaining such a convincing performance in every interaction would require a level of commitment that I find almost impossible to comprehend. What I find especially interesting from a psychological perspective is ...