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Total transparency? Absorbing ‘Everything’ documentary duels over the truth.

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Write to us at startingpoint@globe.com. To subscribe, sign up here. TODAY’S STARTING POINTElizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, speaks in 2015. AP/Associated PressIt’s not every movie that opens to 2,000 sold-out shows its first weekend. On Friday, there was even a guy sitting in the aisle next to our seats. For three hours. So, should you see “You Can See Everything,” the film documenting disgraced Theranos chief Elizabeth Holmes’s psychological dance with comic, cringe-master, and truth-splicer Nathan Fielder? Like many who’ve seen the film, I have more questions than answers. But I’ll try to give you some straight takeaways.1. Can it be interesting for three hours? Strangely, yes. I did wonder what could possibly happen after Fielder’s experiment living with Holmes and her partner Billy Evans ended with her reporting to a federal prison in Texas. But readers, things actually picked up.2. Did Fielder get more proof that Holmes knowingly misled investors with false claims about her product?

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