Super Size Essay

Briana and today I will be talking to you about ‘Super Size Me.’ ‘Super Size Me’ is a 2004 documentary of social commentary which follows Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker who ate only McDonald’s food for 30 days. The film documents this lifestyle’s dramatic effect on Spurlock’s physical and mental well-being, while exploring the fast food industry’s corporate influence and contribution to the American obesity epidemic. ‘Super Size Me’ aims to inform its audience about America’s

‘America has now become the fattest nation in the world’ (Super Size Me) Super Size Me was produced in The United States of America, a country internationally known as the largest consumer of fast food. This fact obviously had complete influence on the production of this documentary. “At least one quarter of American adults eat fast food everyday.” (CBS, 2002) this alarming statistic is the basis of why this film was produced and why it had such an effect on it’s audiences. The growing fast food

Evaluation of Super Size Me      Americans are fat and growing fatter with each passing day. One does not have to do look far to see how fat we are. Take a stroll to the supermarket, college campuses, offices, playgrounds, fast food restaurants, or malls and see the evidence of fat America. What is causing this epidemic of obesity? There are a plethora of reasons including overeating, lack of exercise, fast food, processed food, dieting, and sedentary lifestyles. Morgan Spurlock of New York City

The documentary film Super Size Me follows a similar strategy of directorial participation combined with multiple interviews. It deals with the dramatizing health effects of consuming strictly fast food only. Morgan Spurlock, the main character as well as the documentaries creator meets with several physicians before taking on a month of non stop McDonalds diet. Throughout the documentary, Mr. Spurlock narrates the changes in his body, demonstrates how he was very fit for his age and consumed nothing

and oppositional. In light of Hall’s theory, this essay will, firstly explain the process of encoding and decoding and secondly will decode the following two images, ‘Super Size Me’ by Morgan Spurlock, from the genre of documentary and the Louis Vuitton advertisement featuring

Hospitals, 44% of Americans eat out at least once a week, every day 34% of children consume fast food, and children get 12% of their calories from fast food (North Ohio Heart). Fast food is taking over people's diets. The 2004 Documentary Super Size Me talks about the truth behind the fast food industry, but mostly McDonald’s. Morgan Spurlock, the producer and the man doing the experiment, decided that he wanted to see what kind of effect that McDonald’s could have on the human body. He decides

Introduction “Super Size Me” is a documentary film that focuses on the effects of fast-food, McDonald’s in particular, to the human body in terms of physiological and psychological aspects. The film is directed, produced, and starred by Morgan Spurlock whom investigated and experimented on himself by eating McDonald’s every meal, every day, for 30 days. Spurlock, who in the beginning was a particularly healthy middle-aged man, began experiencing weight gain, addiction, depression, mood swings, sexual

Super-Size Me is a documentary that was created to influence the U.S about obesity. Morgan Spurlock the creator and director of this documentary decided to show the U.S what McDonalds can do to trigger obesity, he shows fake pathos using the persuasive and film devices that effects the sequence of the audio content and film arrangement. Tampering with the music in certain parts of the documentary, can give the audience a sense of distasteful emotion towards McDonalds. In the documentary there is

Question 4: You hear about different answers to why America overeats. List the diverse cause you hear about in the documentary. Throughout the film, there are a number of explanations presented as to why Americans overeat, resulting in an epidemic of obesity and chronic health problems related to weight. According to the film, obesity is the second largest cause of death in the United States (smoking being number one). Many people believe that the fast food corporations are to blame for America’s

In this documentary, Super High Me directed by Michael Blieden, he gives an interesting argument on how marijuana affects one individual. In this film, he shows that in one month, while using marijuana, the negative mental and physical changes that take effect. For this documentary, he chooses Doug Benson, a comedian who uses marijuana on a regular bases. What he wanted Benson to do was not smoke for the first 30 days, then have him smoke continues through the next 30 days. This film was made to