Bad Blood
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By John Carreyrou (Vintage, 2020).
I read this book back in 2021 (the COVID days). It was a wild and surreal feeling and easily one of the best journalistic books I ever read. It seemed like some people do believe “fake it until you make it” 😂
I have not paid much attention to the ensuing trials, until lately when the movie “You Can See Everything” came out. WOW, I never thought I could be blown away by a “documentary.” The turns, the manipulations, and the “unwavering” belief in “it CAN do any test”!
What is bizarre to me is the fixation on a single (mis)quote (They are playing a character I created vs They are playing a character *they* created) from a NYT reporter (Amy Chozick, who responded here). How is that a big deal? Of course, one can say it is a metaphor for every misreporting/misunderstanding, but I think it just showed how naive/out-of-touch one can be. There was one line from the actress Amanda Seyfried that summarized it well: “I didn’t do that to [Holmes]. She did that to herself.”
A more apt title for the movie should, perhaps, be “You Can See Everything That We Want You To See” or “You Can See Everything Including My Little Brother.”
Side facts: Billy Evans went to MIT and spent 2 years in Fudan University (Shanghai, 6 years there for yours truly). The director Nathan Fielder is a Canadian who grew up in Vancouver, BC.
