Wrote a recommendation for the documentary “You Can See Everything” which you can read here, but here are a few more quick thoughts and takes I have coming out of this movie:
- There’s something about Nathan’s emotions and reactions on screen having been nearly one-to-one of mine for the whole movie that felt incredibly fitting.
- It was fascinating watching the same beats in the movie landing as comedy for some and recognition as others. Some awkwardness was funny, some awkwardness was deeply (and sometimes scarily) true. It made me wonder about my own brain’s wiring, my way of relating to Nathan, and how much deeper I was reading into Elizabeth’s situation. I too did find the humor in those moments, but viscerally felt something much deeper beyond the surface level comedy.
- Even though it’s three hours long, this documentary feels like a road trip full of twists and turns that you want to be on and become deeply invested in arriving at the destination.
- I think the fact that Fielder and Oppenheim are still trying to make sense of the movie they filmed is incredibly accurate to how I feel after leaving the theater. (Sourcing this thought from here and here, as well as a few interviews I saw reels of on social media)
- It feels like Nathan Fielder made a Season 3 to The Rehearsal but instead made it a movie.
- Amanda Seyfried’s parts and roles in this movie were so critically important and not something I saw coming.
I’m still trying to understand what I have truly taken away from seeing this movie, or at least articulating the feelings in my brain at the moment, but I know for sure that I will be trying to squeeze in one more screening. And then pre-order the Blu-Ray the second that’s available.
