2019 · documentary · political
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Directed by Alex Gibney1h 59m2019
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.
Our read: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded documentary · political entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle documentary / political, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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