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Originally Posted by krunic
The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley
This is about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Not bad, but the constant super close up shots of Holmes got really annoying. Zooming in on a pic of someone's face over and over again does not create drama or add to the story, it's just annoying.
3/5
I totally agree in regards to all the close up shots. I'm sure Holmes loved it. She certainly had a narcissistic personality. She hires a top notch photographer to take over 200 photos of her in different poses and places for magazine covers.
She looks somewhat like an albino or a goth person with that milky white skin offset with the black turtlenecks & red lipstick. But I guess the character that works best for her and her looks would be a female Dracula -
let me suck your blood/money until its dry.
She obviously wanted to be put in a Silicon Valley All Star museum to be compared to Gates, Jobs, the Google guys, etc. so badly that she figured she could either con her way in or just hire a bunch of top notch biology/chemistry & other scientists & throw them in a secret lab with NDA's and tell them to make a small machine that could do impossible things with a drop of blood.
I thought the makers of this doc (one whom was Alex Gibney I think who seems to be involved in several good documentaries lately with one on Scientology that was good - what a nutcase scam that is) made a good point when they said when she was
on the carpet she thought of herself as a Goddess as well as many of her followers.
And she had powerful connections she deceived that could give her protection from regulators (& Trump has lifted regulations so the big Fracking interests & similar big corporations like Dow and Monsanto can again just throw endless tons of a brew of nasty chemicals into all sorts of water & I think I read that only 3% of the water on Earth is freshwater).
And boy she could get her followers worked up. I thought it was hilarious when they played Can't Touch This by M.C. Hammer as she tells her followers that they had some good news from the FDA which in reality was a tiny drop in a bucket she could never fill.
But when she was
on the tile (being the labs where the experts in these types of technologies were working), she had no idea or smarts in any of this (& eventually when the bright people realized what was going on, they saw that what Holmes was telling investors was total bull****, and they starting leaving the sinking ship).
This is getting too long so I'll just mention one other thing that was interesting. Former Secretary of State George Shultz bought Elizabeth Holmes Bull****....hook, line, & sinker (makes u wonder if any other country pulled the wool over his eyes when he was SOS).
And his grandson who worked for Theranos realized the whole thing was a scam and helped the Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the story it was a scam. And then Holmes who hired big time lawyers including David Boies to scare and intimidate anybody who told the truth about Theranos.
His grandson's name was Tyler & he went to his grandfathers house to meet some of Holmes attorneys (and George still believed in Holmes). Then u see George S. in a deposition (I think he was 94 or 95, but he still seemed mentally healthy) says he never thought Holmes tried to con him & he still believed in her.
Then in another (or the same) deposition when asked about the lawyers from Theranos who came that day - he said they were animals, then corrected himself & said they were Wild Animals who were verbally assaulting his grandson.
When the house of cards finally crumbled & it became obvious Holmes had just scammed a bunch of people for their money & whatever else she needed them for. And G. Shultz finally realized his grandson was right which was a good thing. And when the ship was almost all the way under the sea - she fired her boyfriend & Theranos CEO named Sunny.
And if she could keep the scam going - I don't think she would have had a problem of boxing his car in on a toll road & having a bunch of mob guys rise up in the toll booths with machine guns and riddle him with bullets.