Over the course of a month, Spurlock commited himself to a diet consisting purely of McDonalds menu items. After certain specifications and stipulations were put into place, Spurlock began his "McDiet" which soon proved to be a gruesome and nauseating experience. Almost instantly after the start of the documentary, it becomes apparent that Spurlock was subjecting himself for the sake of health revelations. In the humorous, insightful documentary Super Size Me, director Morgan Spurlock combines his unique style of participatory narration with strong appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in order to successfully educate the audience of the negative health impacts of fast food on the collective physique. Sporlock takes on the unique stle of participatory narration in order to create an intense level of engagement between the filmmaker and the viewers, thus making the film more personal and effective.
For example, it shows us the risks of eating fast food, specifically McDonald’s fast food. Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s fast food for thirty days straight. He gained 25 pounds and also doubled his chances for heart disease. It took Morgan 14 months to lose his extra weight and he said it was nothing close to being easy. In addition, this movie shows the ways schools are affecting obesity in their students.
For example, it shows us the risks of eating fast food, specifically McDonald’s fast food. Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s fast food for thirty days straight. He gained 25 pounds and also doubled his chances for heart disease. It took Morgan 14 months to lose his extra weight and he said it was nothing close to being easy. In addition, this movie shows the ways schools are affecting obesity in their students.
Even though Spurlock makes many valid points in his documentary, I still believe that the eating habits of Americans today are based on their own choices and they should be responsible for those choices. According to the documentary Super-Size Me by Morgan Spurlock, 60% of adults in America are either overweight or obese. Spurlock decided to make the film when he heard about two teenage girls who filed lawsuits blaming McDonalds for them being overweight. His experiment involved him eating only McDonalds for 30 days to see what would happen to his body. Spurlock decided to follow four main rules during this experiment.
Memorandum: Hollywood Reporter Critical Review of the film “Super Size Me” The Film: The controversial documentary film, “Super Size Me”, released in 2004 by Morgan Spurlock, criticizes the McDonald’s corporation and the way their food impacts society. With America’s fast growing obesity rate being at an all time high, Spurlock took initiative and conducted an unscientific experiment to personally experience the effects of daily fast food consumption. For 30 days, three times a day, Spurlock consumes McDonald’s choosing to supersize his meal every time. And all without any exercise at all. Being monitored by three physicians; a general practitioner, a cardiologist, and a gastroenterologist, Spurlock kept track of how his health was being harmed each and every day to prove his point that McDonald’s, as well as every fast food restaurant, isn’t the best choice of nutritional food.
November 30, 2011 Supersize Me People are often drawn by curiosity to experiment with various activities in their lives. In the movie Supersize Me Morgan Spurlock decides to experiment with his own health. He got the idea for the documentary after watching the news about two teenage girls who were suing McDonald’s for making them obese. To discover the true harms of the fast food industry, Spurlock goes on a 30 day long McDonald’s binge. He allows himself to eat nothing but the unhealthy food from this restaurant for a whole month abiding by certain regulations.
The movie Super Size Me is an American documentary film about understanding the benefits as well as the troubles of specific eating habits. There are many dangers of eating fast food; physical and psychological effects. Morgan Spurlock, the documentary’s main character, ate nothing but McDonald’s fast food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for thirty days straight. We watched as Morgan’s weight increased drastically, his health weakened, and he began to show signs of depression. In addition, this documentary also illustrates the fast food industry’s corporate influence, the spread of obesity throughout the United States, and the lawsuit against McDonalds, on behalf of two women allegedly obese as a result of eating McDonald’s food.
After a few week using food from giant McDonald's three times a day Spurlock feels bad and is getting weigh very quickly. What is surprising in this experiment is that fact that he is gain weight faster and feels worse than itself could have predicted, his team of doctors who are supervise his health have to stop him from this experiment after they observe the abnormality in his liver and other organs. This experiment in the field of dietetics raises an important question: is really like eating fast food foods cause dramatic multiplication of the number of people suffering from obesity? What actually make the food like fast food to be so unhealthy for us? There are other factors involved?
BACKGROUND- SuperSize Me is a 2004 documentary film by award winning playwright Morgan Spurlock . Conceived when he learned two teenage girls were suing McDonalds for making them obese, Spurlock endeavors to document the physical and psychological changes that can result from fast food. The premise is to eat only McDonald's food for 30 days as well as limit his fitness regime to that of the average american. Meals, doctors appoints and interviews with leading experts are filmed in an effort to present McDonalds as a hazard to our nutritional well being. Statistics show that today, 2013, more americans can be classified as obese than ever before.
McDonalds Menu Not So Easy to Swallow By Campbell Miller-Waugh SUPERSIZE ME (2004), the entertaining, compelling and engrossing documentary which follows the director Morgan Spurlock’s stomach-turning investigation of the habits of somewhat now ‘normal’ American people. In this film, Spurlock undertakes a 30 day McDonald’s binge which arose when he heard of two overweight schoolgirls who brought a lawsuit against the fast food firm. The suit failed to prove that eating McDonald’s was injurious to their health, and therefore, Morgan Spurlock sets out to prove just that. In his travels, he meets a wide range of interesting people: merrily deceitful lawyers, sycophantic food industry supplicants, and a handful of authoritative academics, all in which are assisting Spurlock’s case to demonise Micky D’s. To document the progress of this extreme challenge, he acquires the assistance of not one, but three doctors who give him thorough examinations before the beginning of this life-threatening quest.