![]() ![]() ![]() His searching voice-overs seem to plead to know what this all means. Holmes at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in 2014īut, the mechanics of the deception aren’t the most important part of the story. Though the film gives some glimpses of these dynamics, they are always in the background, shadowed by other far less compelling narrative impulses. It illuminates how the rich and well connected occupy different strata of life, enjoy a completely different set of opportunities from the rest of us, experience a different kind of justice, and are so often immune from consequences. At its root, it’s a parable that cuts to the central dysfunctions in the American economic and political order, one that should dismantle our notions of meritocracy and put a strict limit on our forbearance for elites. That’s a shame, because the story of Theranos is so much more than that. In the hands of Gibney, the rise and fall of Theranos is reduced to a sort of personality puzzle, driven by the banal questions like: What was Elizabeth Holmes thinking? Is she a liar? How could seemingly competent investors be so misled? Missing from the film, however, is any sustained effort to understand how Theranos interacted with the larger economic and social forces that nurtured it. ![]()
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