There is no doubt that fast food is causing major problems for many Americans today. In response to this, an ordinary man, Morgan Spurlock, decides to experiment with the effects of eating too much fast food from as an experiment.Supersize Me, Spurlock decides to eat only food from McDonald’s for thirty days to see how it would affect his health. Spurlock starts out healthier than an average man for his age and size. Throughout the film, his health gradually degenerates and eventually reaches critical levels, even before the thirty days are over. While Spurlock is experimenting with his fast food diet, he also investigates contemporary issues that relate to the sale and consumption of fast food. The film puts particular emphasis on the
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By interviewing various people, carefully using a logical approach by documenting Spurlock’s activity and health during the experiment, providing plentiful statistics and information, making appeals to the audience’s emotions such as disgust and humor, and establishing credibility and trust from the audience, Morgan Spurlock argues in his documentary film Supersize Me that the consumption of fast foods are largely responsible for many Americans’ health problems today.The film puts particular emphasis on the growing number of obese Americans, the general ignorance of eating fast food, and questions how responsible people are for themselves versus how responsible corporations are for consumer's’ health issues. By interviewing various people, carefully using a logical approach by documenting Spurlock’s activity and health during the experiment, providing plentiful statistics and information, making appeals to the audience’s emotions such as disgust and humor, and establishing credibility and trust from the audience, Morgan Spurlock argues in his documentary film Supersize Me that the consumption of fast foods are largely responsible for many Americans’ health problems …show more content…
These are usually intended to be disgusting scenes. For example, on just day two, Spurlock is asked to supersize his meal. Based on his established rules, he must agree to supersize his meal and eat the entire meal, no excuses. He does eat the entire meal (which takes him about 20 minutes), only to vomit out of his window immediately afterward. The cameraman then films the vomit on the ground in the parking lot. This is a strong emotional appeal toward disgust that argues to the audience that supersize meals are just way too much for an average person to eat. The film also makes appeals to disgust when Spurlock shows that he had a hair in a yogurt parfait, implying that foods are not always carefully prepared at fast food restaurants. The film also shows sugar and fat in containers equivalent to the amount of those substances Spurlock consumed in the food he ate during the thirty day period, giving the audience a clear visual perspective on what was in the food he ate during the diet. The strongest emotional appeal to disgust of all was the filming of a gastric bypass surgery; and while the surgery is being shown, it is accompanied by the classical piece “The Blue Danube” playing in the background. This scene was shown to reveal to the audience what fat looks like in the body and how much can be found in the body of an obese person as well. The classical music piece helps make the
By interviewing various people, carefully using a logical approach by documenting Spurlock’s activity and health during the experiment, providing plentiful statistics and information, making appeals to the audience’s emotions such as disgust and humor, and establishing credibility and trust from the audience, Morgan Spurlock argues in his documentary film Supersize Me that the consumption of fast foods are largely responsible for many Americans’ health problems today.The film puts particular emphasis on the growing number of obese Americans, the general ignorance of eating fast food, and questions how responsible people are for themselves versus how responsible corporations are for consumer's’ health issues. By interviewing various people, carefully using a logical approach by documenting Spurlock’s activity and health during the experiment, providing plentiful statistics and information, making appeals to the audience’s emotions such as disgust and humor, and establishing credibility and trust from the audience, Morgan Spurlock argues in his documentary film Supersize Me that the consumption of fast foods are largely responsible for many Americans’ health problems …show more content…
These are usually intended to be disgusting scenes. For example, on just day two, Spurlock is asked to supersize his meal. Based on his established rules, he must agree to supersize his meal and eat the entire meal, no excuses. He does eat the entire meal (which takes him about 20 minutes), only to vomit out of his window immediately afterward. The cameraman then films the vomit on the ground in the parking lot. This is a strong emotional appeal toward disgust that argues to the audience that supersize meals are just way too much for an average person to eat. The film also makes appeals to disgust when Spurlock shows that he had a hair in a yogurt parfait, implying that foods are not always carefully prepared at fast food restaurants. The film also shows sugar and fat in containers equivalent to the amount of those substances Spurlock consumed in the food he ate during the thirty day period, giving the audience a clear visual perspective on what was in the food he ate during the diet. The strongest emotional appeal to disgust of all was the filming of a gastric bypass surgery; and while the surgery is being shown, it is accompanied by the classical piece “The Blue Danube” playing in the background. This scene was shown to reveal to the audience what fat looks like in the body and how much can be found in the body of an obese person as well. The classical music piece helps make the