Super-Size Me is a documentary created to show the issues America has with obesity caused by poor diets. A man named Morgan Spurlock attempts to bring light to this situation with an experiment. His experiment uses McDonald’s in an interesting way. He decides to eat three square meals daily from McDonald’s. That is breakfast lunch and dinner from the all famous fast food restaurant. Documenting this experiment for us to see, he uses statistics, or logos, emotions, or pathos, and credible people, or ethos, throughout the documentary to show us why we have a problem in American culture. These techniques convince us of his point very well Logos is the biggest factor for this documentary in convincing us that we have a problem with obesity because
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It has music that plays to humor and scenes that play to humor. Humor isn’t a bad thing in convincing something. It makes us trust this person more and more. It also has a lot of scenes that make us feel uncomfortable or surprised. These scenes are scenes that show groups of obese people. They are ordering food at McDonalds, at the beach, walking on the streets, etc. Seeing all of this makes us feel surprised that the numbers are this high with the obesity rates in America. There is a scene interviewing a girl who is experiencing weight problems and is trying to fix them because of what society pressures us into with media of skinny models and more. It is ok to want to be like this but it makes us feel bad for her because of how hard it can be to look like that when there is fast food on every corner of America. It also plays on pathos using scenes to show someone who is in the hospital because of obesity related problems. This seems to work as a fear factor. This works well in persuading people to change their habits to live healthier. It also closes the film talking about how unhealthy lifestyles can put you in the hospital or even the graveyard. This, again, uses this fear factor to persuade us to agree with their
It has music that plays to humor and scenes that play to humor. Humor isn’t a bad thing in convincing something. It makes us trust this person more and more. It also has a lot of scenes that make us feel uncomfortable or surprised. These scenes are scenes that show groups of obese people. They are ordering food at McDonalds, at the beach, walking on the streets, etc. Seeing all of this makes us feel surprised that the numbers are this high with the obesity rates in America. There is a scene interviewing a girl who is experiencing weight problems and is trying to fix them because of what society pressures us into with media of skinny models and more. It is ok to want to be like this but it makes us feel bad for her because of how hard it can be to look like that when there is fast food on every corner of America. It also plays on pathos using scenes to show someone who is in the hospital because of obesity related problems. This seems to work as a fear factor. This works well in persuading people to change their habits to live healthier. It also closes the film talking about how unhealthy lifestyles can put you in the hospital or even the graveyard. This, again, uses this fear factor to persuade us to agree with their