You Can See Everything
I’m still planning to review Digger this week, but Digger is already old news (having disappeared from most theatres in less than two weeks). So let’s take a look at one of the biggest film stories of the year: a three-hour documentary that has become a huge box office hit while also generating an astonishing amount of conversation. I have never seen any of the work of Canadian comedian, actor and filmmaker Nathan Fielder, or of his co-director Lance Oppenheim. I do, however, watch a lot of documentaries. Noting all the hype and the rave reviews, I therefore rushed out to see You Can See Everything during its first week of release. As I was watching this very unique and entertaining documentary, my first thought was “Nope, not a documentary. This is an anti-documentary.” By this I mean that the film breaks most of the rules that documentaries generally follow and also that by doing so it makes it clear how unreliable the documentary genre can be. This is especially striking giv...
