Analysis Of Supersize Me

It seems like every person in America knows how bad fast food is for them. Yet, when was the last time you went through the drive-through of the nearest McDonald’s, craving a Big Mac or shake? Last month? Last week? When you last bit into your first handful of a large fry, were you really thinking about the impact on your health, or were you just too hungry to care? In the documentary Super Size Me, director Morgan Spurlock brings the issue of health and fast food from the back of American’s minds to the front. In this program, he uses a variety of methods to illustrate the point that fast food is harmful in more ways than just one. Spurlock uses gross-out methods, the voices of experts, and the effects on children to demonstrate his point …show more content…
Spurlock is insisting the audience think about themselves and the impact of what they’re eating. However, Spurlock switches his approach as he begins to explore the impact of corporate minds on the minds of children, people who do not always have the choice to care for themselves. The director illustrates the corporation’s targeting and effect on children. In the first scene of the film, a group of children at a camp are cheerfully singing “a Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut” (Super Size Me). Before the first five minutes have passed, the viewer is forced to view how children are taught from a young age to worship unhealthy food. Spurlock spends a large amount of time with the younger demographic throughout the documentary. Later in the film, he goes on to spend some time surveying the food choices given to children as school lunches. Spurlock finds that foods in schools are often heated up out of boxes, and children tend to eat little more than chips and a soda when given a choice. This mini experiment proves to the viewer that children are hardly ever given healthy, unprocessed foods in an environment that should be encouraging health the most. Spurlock even decides to interview children, showing them famous figures and seeing which ones children are able to identify. While every child recognized Ronald McDonald, few recognized a …show more content…
Thanks to the methods used by the director, this message is not just clear, it is effective. In leaving the viewer entertained, disgusted, humored, and frightened, The same message conveyed any differently could have been forgettable, however Spurlock created a message that lingers in the minds of his viewers. The next time you eat out at McDonald 's, you can be sure you’ll remember Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me, and might just lose your