You can see everything is released in cinemas around the UK on November 20th. If you know her story, or about her. This will feel meaningful:
Documentary-maker Nathan Fielder gained access to all areas for this three hour long look at the life of a woman who managed to fool the American elite like George W Bush, Rupert Murdoch and secretary of the Treasury, back then, later of state, George Shultz. You could not make it up. All these gilded, rich, powerful people believed in her and the blood test.
Amanda Seyfried starred in a TV series based on her life and work with medical tech start-up Theranos (therapy/diagnosis). It was good, compelling even.
Watching it felt like rubber-necking on the motorway. You shouldn’t look, but can’t drag your eyes away.
This is a very, very sobering tale of what I believe is a truly held belief, a fervour, a passion that Elizabeth Holmes had for bringing a ground breaking, new form of medical diagnosis to the World. A single drop of blood could reveal if you had any medical conditions you needed to pay attention to.
A pin prick could provide enough information about what is going on in your body to tell if you had, say, cancer. Early in life diagnosis could lead to early treatment which could extend your life. Sounds just brilliant.
It was miracle technology and led to the foundation of a company by Elizabeth which ended up with a $9billion valuation. Was she a criminal for being so wrong? The American criminal system thought so. She is currently serving ten years in Federal Prison Camp, Bryan, in Texas. For fraud.
This massively popular ciema release, it has already sold out showings on pre-book, could get her released (see what I did there, ed?). After all she still believes in the product. Just let her finish the job.
