Analysis Of Morgan Spurlock´s Supersize Me

In 1921, during the beginning of the Roaring 20’s decade, the first fast food chain restaurant was established and opened to the people. For the next 100 years, flapper dresses and jazz music began being replaced by cheap, chemically modified burgers and thus, the rise of obesity. Questions then began to emerge about the possible link between the consumption of fast foods and a person’s health. Were these well-loved and profitable chain companies causing obesity in both children and adults? Finally, in 2004, Morgan Spurlock decided to figure it out himself. In his informative documentary, “Supersize Me”, Spurlock, both director and producer, decides to solely eat McDonald's for every meal, every day, for thirty days to see if fast food restaurants

One critic perfectly captured my feelings towards the effectiveness of the film when he said, “It's one thing to know that fast food is bad for you. It's another to see that 'badness' demonstrated” -James Berardinelli. It’s common knowledge that fast food is not healthy, but seeing its effects firsthand creates a stronger desire to choose wisely when deciding what to put in your body. Though the documentary had overwhelmingly positive feedback, some critics find problems in it. As Peter Rainer, a thirty year film critic, asserts, “I'm not sure what Spurlock's escapade really accomplishes, except to emphasize that eating 5,000 calories a day, and exercising little, is bad for you.” However, Spurlock stressed many time throughout the film that his goal was to improve America’s awareness of nutritional eating as well as to see firsthand the effects of eating fast food on a person who rarely exercises anything besides the swipe of their credit card to pay for their Happy

His first appeal, logos, is found from the opening credits to the blackout signaling the end of the film. He incorporates shocking and eye-opening statistics in order to backup his claims about the detriments of fast food. One of the first mentioned statistics in the film was that nearly 100 million people are overweight or obese, which equals more than sixty percent of all adults; related to that statistic, every day, one in four Americans, twenty-five percent of our nation, visits a fast food restaurant. At this rate, Spurlock points out that pretty quickly obesity is going to pass smoking as the leading preventable cause of death. Every year, 300,000 people die of obesity—only a mere 180,000 behind smoking. He stresses that 300,000 people die every year from a preventable cause. Hopefully that number reduced after the release of this