Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, You Can See It All, is pretty crazy.

My conspiracy theory is that social media started driving billionaires crazy, and the pandemic finished it off. Social media has allowed the proletariat to talk directly to the richest people in the world, and where they expected to be greeted with ass kisses similar to those they get in real life, instead they got a bunch of jerking, eye-rolling, and the shocking realization (to them) that most people don’t actually like them. Then the pandemic forced them to confront the working class demanding fair wages and a better work-life balance. And then Elon Musk bought Twitter, and I think it was about destroying the platform, no matter what he or anyone else said publicly.

It’s all coming together now on film, with two billionaire documentaries premiering over the weekend. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim collaborated on You can see everythingdocumentary detailing Elizabeth Holmes’s pre-prison days and her influence and image post-prison. This movie was Telluride’s “secret screening” and it looks pretty crazy.

The thing about Elizabeth Holmes is that she has just completely bought her lie, she simply does not admit that she is a fraud (convicted). Her intensity is at least partly due to her fierce grip on the Theranos fantasy. And she is SO convincing in her delusion that we are still debating whether Theranos was always a scam, or whether there was some kernel of good faith in the beginning and the worm turned when the science failed. (Personally, I think it was always a scam because before she dropped out of college, she was repeatedly told that her “one-line” blood test machine would never work. Elizabeth Holmes is not stupid, she is greedy. She went ahead knowing that her machine would never work, that’s my opinion.)

I fully expect You can see everything be very uncomfortable and weird because that’s exactly what Nathan Fielder does. And here he collaborates with Lance Oppenheim, who also launches Prime time in the narrative film space. When I wrote about Prime timeI said about Oppenheim: “documentarian Lance Oppenheim loves eccentrics and never approaches eccentrics and their very specific predilections in a straightforward manner.”

I don’t expect straight lines when it comes to the trio of Elizabeth Holmes (liar), Nathan Fielder (provocateur) and Lance Oppenheim (professional weird documentarian). Elizabeth Holmes is no longer a billionaire (she is still incarcerated as of this writing), but she once became one because of lies that promised both benefits and wealth to patients. A lie she still clings to, and now she and those lies are the subject of a documentary by two of the slipperiest documentarians working today. This movie should be VERY interesting.

Elizabeth Holmes is also the subject of a documentary by Alex Gibney (Inventor), who is just as provocateur as Nathan Fielder, but for a different reason. Fielder loves to play with expectations, perspectives, and unreliable narrators. Gibney is provocative because he constantly turns his lens on power, often at the crossroads of money and influence. He has made documentaries on Enron, Scientology, the Catholic Church, and many documentaries on Wall Street and politics. Now he has made a documentary about Elon Musk, the richest and perhaps most powerful man in the world. Every time Elon Musk faces even the slightest public criticism, he collapses and funds more fascism, so the consequences of the Gibney document Musk It’s actually scary to think about.

Musk just premiered in Venice, and there’s a report about Gibney filming the film in Hollywood Reporter. I’m sure everyone, including Elon Musk, will take this completely normally.

In addition to these two documentaries, there is also a narrative film by Luca Guadagnino: Artificialabout OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. It’s not expected to be a flattering portrayal of Altman or a corporate AI game. I’m actually a little worried about the implications of all these movies focusing on some of the richest people (or liars trying to be among the richest people), because if the last decade has shown us anything, it’s that billionaires can’t handle criticism. They are extremely sensitive. Some might even say that they are as soft as snowflakes and cannot withstand even a single touch. And some of the sharpest, sharpest, most critical filmmakers working today are out to grab them by the throat. Well, I just hope they don’t take their feelings out on our democracies.