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Could
The Dropout: The Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes
be one of the
best series seen
in recent times?
It's hard to say clearly.
But there is no definitive answer regarding a successful
Disney + production
that, in theory, speaks of a real person who tried to touch the sky.
And she fell dead.
But that is much more.
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The series tells how Elizabeth Holmes created Theranos.
The Dropout
talks about
ambition, greed, neoliberalism, machismo and even madness to make a quick buck.
With scenes that range from the most dramatic to the most comical, always without stopping at a fixed place, thus offering
an experience capable of capturing all kinds of audiences.
As if it were made from the famous algorithm used by the most advanced companies in the world today.
But with outstanding quality and an atmosphere that captivates.
A GREAT AMANDA SEYFRIED
In
The Dropout
,
Amanda Seyfried does some of her best work yet
.
In addition to playing the young Elizabeth Holmes and another slightly older version of just 23 years old, she moves like a fish to water in scenes where she comes face to face with film and television veterans such as
Stephen Fry, Anne Archer (
Fatal Attraction
), Michael Ironside, Sam Waterston (
The Newsroom
) or William H. Macy.
Sunny (Naveen Balwany) helps Elizabeth with her business.
But who is Elizabeth Holmes?
A
young businesswoman
who, after briefly passing through the prestigious Stanford University, was able to deceive many with a fantastic ingenuity.
According to her
company Heranos Theranos her company proclaimed, carrying out a health check without needles
and with a brief puncture was possible.
The machine that she imagined would save time and money for patients who could
know their medical status with a card in which a single drop of blood was deposited and analyzed at the moment by a computer.
It's that simple... and that false.
As this series explains,
that idea could never be fully executed.
It constantly failed.
But none of that stopped the ambition of a girl in her early twenties who had the
help of Sunny Balwani
(Naveen Andrews,
Lost
), an older guy who she handled as she pleased since the idea came to mind.
An adventure in which she embarked on powerful investors who never cared about something as basic as seeing if the machine worked.
Sunny and Elizabeth at a Theranos meeting.
As the eight chapters of this Disney+ series show, Elizabeth Holmes had to
become strong in a world of men
, in an area (Sillicon Valley, Palo Alto) where Twitter, Facebook or Apple triumphed and with
a character that helped her lie and flee forward
every time someone raised doubts about the project.
In this series with a
brutal soundtrack
(Amy Winehouse, David Bowie, Frank Sinatra or Katy Perry, what a mix), Elizabeth Holmes' deceptions run parallel to
Holmes's fascination with Apple or Facebook.
Two examples of success with leaders (Steve Jobs and Marck Zuckerberg) who did not know what empathy was like Holmes herself and who, unlike her, succeeded with her multi-million dollar business.
THE BIG IDEA OF THE CENTURY
At that time, the beginning of this century, any idea generated such excitement among investors that raising money was easy.
And fail too.
For this reason, this
drama with notes of very black humor
explains better than many manuals the
dangers of neoliberalism, of excessive ambition and the need for mechanisms to control companies
and avoid economic excesses.
Health being the field in which Theranos, Holmes's company, acted, we must talk about
how easy and dangerous it was for this young girl and without finished university studies to deceive white guys much older
than her who believed in her as in the new Steve Jobs who was going to make them gold.
By the way,
the image of Steve Jobs and the products he created at Apple appear
constantly in each chapter.
Image of real Elizabeth Holmes.
So, if there is one thing that explains the great result of this series, it is, in this order: the story itself,
Amanda Seyfried's performance
, the filmmaking of a very elaborate script and the different levels offered by a plot in which young people (there are details of
Star Wars
), adults and even
experts in marketing and
management
will find details to enjoy.
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