Analytical Essay Super Size Me

Are fast food productions hold responsible for America being categorized as the fattest nation? In the documentary Supersize me, Morgan Spurlock, director, and author of this film challenges himself on a McJourney for thirty days. Spurlock could only eat fast food that came from McDonalds. He went onto this journey to analyze the effect McDonald’s has on the human body. The film Supersize Me uses ethos, logos and pathos to effectively convincingly argue how people should be more aware of the foods they eat, and the possible repercussions they are risking.

Without pathos, the documentary would have not affected the audience to the extent that it did. The pathos can be found when the audience is shown the effects that McDonalds had on Spurlock. After just a few days, the viewers were able to witness the pain that he was going through and the emotional impact the McDonald’s had on him. “My body just basically falls apart over the course of this diet,” Spurlock told Newsweek (Lambert 2004). Spurlock’s relationship and his sexual relationship with his girlfriend changed so the viewers were once again able to feel the emotion that Morgan was feeling. The audience was shown how being over-weight could have such an extreme impact on one’s life. Spurlock stated that there are 400,000 deaths a year that are associated with obesity illnesses (Spurlock 2004). He also stated that diabetes is now more common in children every year as a result of fast food and the numbers are continuing to go up if nothing is done to eliminate this spread.

Another instance in Fat Head that effectively portrays Spurlock negatively is through the director’s body language while criticising Super Size Me. Much of the time, Naughton has his hands on his hips with his eyebrows synclined. This gesture connotes anger. Viewers perceive through Naughton’s aggression that the information addresses in Super Size Me is mendacious, readily accepting Naughton’s invited reading. Moreover, the employment of the camera at medium, eye level shot is to enable viewers to feel as though they are interacting with the real Tom Naughton. This sense of closeness makes his intended message more convincing.

Spurlock also tried to limit himself to as little activity as possible without staying at home all the time. In doing this he is trying to assimilate his body to what the average person would; average being three to five-thousand steps or less a day. In regards to these self constructed regulations it forces Spurlock Now this is not to say that what Spurlock does is that of the average person. His intention was to over exaggerate the conditions, and the amount of food, to show the long term effects of fast food on our bodies. Spurlock's definition for an average person, is not to be viewed at 100% true, because he has massive generalization and has put all Americans into one bucket. Although he also does indicate that most New Yorkers walk an average of 6 miles a day which is far more than three to five-thousand steps (Spurlock, 2004). Spurlock doctors were correct in the statement that the body is resilient and the amount of change our bodies can withstand in a short amount of

Catching the eye of the viewer with bright and reflective colors, Slater is able to easily convey his message. The image heavily implies the effects of a fast food diet and what it does to a person’s body. The first thing a viewer would see is the

     Morgan Spurlock decided to make this documentary to investigate the fast food companies, and the effects of certain fast food chains products, particularly McDonalds, on the health of society. This Documentary explores the United States growing epidemic of obesity and diabetes as well. Morgan decides to eat nothing but McDonald's food for thirty days. He must eat one of everything on the menu at least once, and when asked to super size his meal he must do so. Another stipulation of Morgan's experiment is that he can only take 5,000 steps a day to replicate the exercise that most average Americans get on a daily basis. He must also eat three meals a day, no exceptions and if McDonalds doesn't serve it

Me decided to show the U.S how McDonalds can affect obesity in the U.S. Throughout the documentary, Spurlock shows his personal effects of eating McDonalds for 30 days and 30 nights. He uses many different types of film techniques to engage, deceive and persuade his audience. The persuasive devices that Mr Spurlock uses are pathos, logos and ethos. Even

An analysis of the film Super Size Me, which is a 2004 documentary over Morgan Spurlock who documents the obesity problem we have in this country and how McDonald’s and other fast food chains are the ones that mainly contribute to the increasing problem, and exploring the realist aesthetics of the film goes over the elements of direct address to the camera, handheld camera, on-camera interview and also real people (non actors). This documentary was made to study the influence that the fast food industry, such as McDonald’s, Wendy’s, KFC and others have over the obesity problem in America. Morgan Spurlock makes himself a guinea pig and explores the consequences to his body when only eating McDonald’s three times a day for one whole month and he can only super size it if the cashier asks him. Spurlock consults with a practitioner, cardiologist, gastroenterologist, nutritionist, and trainers to help and track the change in his body during the whole experiment.

Obesity is only second to tobacco smoking as the most preventable death in the United States today. In order to publicize the obesity epidemic, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a thirty day experiment documented in his film, Super Size Me. Nutritionists, healthy eaters, and unhealthy eaters alike are shown the harmful effects of fast food. In order to emphasize the scale of the epidemic and address a large audience, Spurlock appeals to logos through his use of expert testimony, statistics, anticipating counterarguments, and piling.

McDonald’s is killing Americans, at least that is what Morgan Spurlock believes. In his documentary Super Size Me he embarks on a quest to not only describe and use himself as an example of the growing obesity trend, but to offer the viewers with base-line nutritional knowledge that will allow them to draw their own informed conclusions. Spurlock's primary intention is to prove through self-experimentation that eating solely McDonald's food is dangerous. His secondary intention is to denounce the rising obesity rate in American by using statistics, his own research, and the opinions of experts. His broader message is for a general audience while he tailors select chapters towards more specific demographics such as parents or McDonald's

In a society that is facing numerous problems, such as economic devastation, one major problem is often disregarded, growing obesity. As the American society keeps growing, so does growth of the fast food industry and the epidemic of obesity. In order to further investigate the main cause of obesity, Morgan Spurlock, the film director and main character, decides to criticize the fast food industry for its connection with obesity in America. In his documentary Spurlock performs a radical experiment that drives him to eat only from McDonald's and order a super-sized meal whenever he is asked. By including visual and textual techniques, rhetorical appeals, and argumentative evidences, Morgan Spurlock was able

Contrary to the popular belief of the time, Morgan Spurlock’s amateur documentary “Supersize Me” pushed reform in both fast food culture, and eating habits of citizens, being one of the first catalysts in a new movement in America. This 2004 film, being the first of his works to establish Spurlock as a filmmaker, focuses on Spurlock’s 30 day journey in which he vowed to eat solely McDonalds for three meals a day, and track his overall mental, physical, and social changes over this span of time. Throughout the film, Spurlock consults three doctors (a gastroenterologist, a cardiologist, and a general practitioner) as well as a nutritionist to monitor physical change and gather quantitative data supporting his claim. The film often exhibited

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Morgan Spurlock’s motivation to create his documentary emerged from a certain court case, in which two teenage girls sued McDonald's for selling them products that resulted in them being obese for their age group (Spurlock). McDonald’s testimony stated that the girls could not fully prove that it was the McDonald’s product that were making them overweight and that eating their products for every meal would be seemingly dangerous (Spurlock). Spurlock to this statement into his owns hands and a decided to conduct a month long experiment, in which he would go on a thirty-day long binge of McDonald’s food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner to prove if and how fast food can make a person obese (Spurlock). It is well known within the general public that fast food in not a healthy option for a meal but for many, fast food is the only

In 2003 Morgan Spurlock launched on an experiment of sorts to fully understand the effects that fast food, in this case specifically McDonald’s food can have on one’s physiological and mental health by eating nothing but McDonald’s food for thirty days. Before embarking on this quest, Spurlock visited a general practitioner, a cardiologist, a gastroenterologist, a dietician, and an exercise specialist. He began his McDonald’s journey with exceptional health, by the end of the thirty days he had suffered serious health consequences both physically and mentally. From an addiction to McDonald’s food to a major increase in cholesterol levels there is no doubt that Spurlock’s health greatly declined in the month long period. Spurlock documented his journey in a film entitled Supersize Me, which has served as a call to action for the years since its release.