Even Elizabeth Holmes cried at the end of Pride & Prejudice.

The zeitgeist-y movie everyone is talking about right now is You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s meta-documentary about Thermos’s Elizabeth Holmes and her family. Holmes invited the filmmakers to document the weeks before she heads to prison for wire fraud; the result is profoundly strange and thought-provoking.

The press tour and chatter around the movie has been just as revealing and confounding. But one moment particularly caught my eye. It’s from a talk with Fielder and Oppenheim at the SCAD Savannah film festival. Oppenheim—who I feel is being overshadowed by Fielder, but has done equally great work, like Some Kind of Heaven, Spermworld, and Ren Faire—is talking about how he and Fielder were unclear what Holmes and her husband Billy Evans wanted out of this film project, and says this:

I remember early on, before we started shooting, Billy showed us a video—because he would sometimes video things on his phone—just of him and Elizabeth, like on a couch, and he’d be like, ‘Look at this moment,’ and it’d be a video of Elizabeth crying, and he’s like, ‘We just watched Pride & Prejudice. This is so good.’ So I was like, ‘Are these the type of moments that you are interested in? You know, what is the object of your guys’ inquiry with this?’

This kind of moment is exactly what the film is interested in: what are everyone’s motivations and intentions? What is real and what is a magic trick? How deep do the scams and manipulations go?

And now I’m also wondering, what about Austen’s story makes Elizabeth Holmes cry? Is she over-identifying with a fellow Elizabeth, a woman who secures a marriage to a man who is proud but ultimately good? Does she think Billy “We Are Charlie Kirk” Evans is like Darcy? Or not like Darcy? Is she struck by Austen’s assertion that a search for self actualization and self knowledge is attainable? That one doesn’t have to scam and deceive as a way to sublimate other, unexamined emotions?

Or is she just borne along by a good story, convinced and willing to invest (emotionally) after a well-performed pitch?

We will simply never know.