Every Dr. that went through this journey with Morgan and kept track of his health are stunned and that people shouldnot eat fast food and one Dr. even says that Morgan should not eat fast food for one whole year to give his body time to recuperate. In 30 days Morgan ate 30lbs of sugar, a lb a day and managed to eat 12 whole pounds of fat. It takes 6 months for Morgan to lose the 20lbs he gained in only 1 month. It takes 2 months of detox eating to get his liver and cholesterol back to normal function. My take from this movie?
When President Obama moved to the White House, a Five Guys staffer suggested sending him a T-shirt. “That’s cheap!” Murrell shot back. Playing coy worked, and soon Obama, trailed by TV cameras, stopped by a store. He ordered a cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, fresh jalapeños, and mustard — a classic example of Five Guys’ formula that sells 2 million burgers a week and was named Zagat’s “best fast food burger” for 2010. For this reporter, evaluating the burger first-hand was problematic: I’ve been a vegetarian for more than a dozen years.
Film Summary Before examining the aesthetics of the film it is important to give a brief summary. In his award winning film Super Size Me, director Morgan Spurlock turns his body into a fast-food waste land to illustrate the consequences of eating fast food. In the opening scenes of his film, Spurlock says that obesity has become second only to smoking as a preventable cause of death in the United States. “What’s more, the national weight gain over the past half-century coincides with the rise of major fast-food outlets” (Chattaway 1). In trying to find any connection between these two, he eats nothing but McDonalds three times a day for thirty days.
In the documentary film Super Size Me, the director and main person, Morgan Spurlock uses the convention, ‘jiggly camera’ to convey the theme that McDonalds and fast food slowly deteriorates and kills its customers. Spurlock is just a normal but very intelligent person who knows how to use his conventions well in a documentary. During the documentary, he takes on an experiment to consume only McDonalds, three times a day for thirty days. Most of the scenes that portray this experiment are taken on a handheld camera, which forms the ‘jiggly camera’ convention, which usually gives the viewer a realistic, first experience on the experiment. In one of the scenes, Spurlock is videoed lying on a bed with his exposed pot belly which is giving us proof of how fast food is deteriorating his health, making him obese and making him feel tired, depressed and exhausted.
He just slammed it over and over out of the park. One day after a big game he went out to celebrate with his couch, who was imaginary of course because Don Jenkins was a one man team. He stopped at the local market to pick up his cottage cheese fix for the night. He grabbed 5 litres, more than he had ever eaten in one sitting. Needless to say, it was going to be a big night.
Going to fast food restaurants to prove his theory about how horrible fast food restaurants are for the human body. After going to a few restaurants David found that many employees at the establishments asked him "Would you like to super size that?". The super size option available is excessive amounts of food and drinks that people do not need in a single sitting for their breakfast, lunch, or dinner regardless of the circumstances. Zinczenko had a diet consisting a lot of the time fast food as a young child growing up and claimed that "by age 15, I had packed 212 pounds of torpid teenage tallow onto my once lanky 5-foot-10 frame." Sadly many Americans these days depend on fast food throughout their daily lives whether it is between not knowing how to cook, its fast easy
On April 15, 1986 I stared intently at the night sky through a skylight from my twin size bed in Rutland, watching for the fiery explosion of missiles and bombs, praying to God that I wouldn’t die that night. I had seen bits and pieces of the news about the United States attack on Libya, knew Gadaffi was a bad guy, and saw my parents engrossed in this turn of events. As an eleven year old girl with a tendency to worry too much, I was paralyzed by fear. As I lay in bed weeping silently for the family and life I was convinced I was about to lose, I just prayed it would happen fast and not hurt too much. As we all know now, the whole mission was successful and we’re still here today.
They could've even met before! Some of the places that they had been were the concentration camp in Auschwitz. They both describe the talk of being killed and burned, the thought of rebellion, and the shut down by elderly Jews. They also talk about the infamous Dr. Mengele, and his Selection methods. They had also both been in the hospital for injuries and talking about how surprised they were with the three meals a day and how they had to leave for fear of being shot when camp was evacuated.
Rayona hates it more than anything that when she goes anywhere, people poke fun at her and make racial remarks to her which makes her feel insecure about herself. When Ray meets Foxy for the first time, Father Tom introduces her and Foxy says, “Your Christine’s kid…The one whose father is a nigger” (Dorris 44). Not only does Rayona have to deal with racism her mother is always putting her in bad situations. There has been quite a few times where Christine has attempted to leave Ray and told her that she wanted to commit suicide. One time in the very beginning of the story Elgin goes to visit Christine in the hospital, Rayona had not seen him in 5 months and Christine did not want to tell him about her sickness.
I feel miserable I don’t want to leave my house!” I have had two most miserable weeks of my life I was feeling very lethargic, I can’t do it anymore. “You actually think you’re going to die? You are going to get your ass out of that bed now! You are going to walk into that hospital and suck it up.” Christina was my best friend she is the strongest person I knew she is also very brusque and that’s what I loved most about her. “Okay, I’m up but I don’t have a good feeling about this.”I got ready and we went to the hospital.