Why Defrauding the Wealthy Worked for Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabeth Holmes’s Netflix documentary “You Can See Everything” was a huge box office success during its limited release: Still, it is Nathan Fielder’s confounding documentary on Elizabeth Holmes, “You Can See Everything,” that has captured the cultural zeitgeist. Released on 855 screens, with over 2,000 sold-out shows, the nearly three-hour documentary follows Ms. Holmes, both a month before entering federal prison for crimes related to her medical technology company, Theranos, and two years into her sentence. It grossed an estimated $15 million from Friday through Sunday, making it one of the largest openings this century for a movie debuting on fewer than 1,000 screens. It will expand to wide release next weekend. What message does it send when criminals are allowed to leverage their crimes into brands, effectively profiting or otherwise benefiting from them? It’s like, “Don’t commit crime or we’ll send you to a white-collar dorm prison, where you’ll serve half your sentence after…