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Release Date: 28 September, 2004 Retail Price: $26.99 OUR Price: $18.89 You SAVE: $8.10! Cast: |
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Entertaining and scary
In "Super Size Me," Morgan Spurlock takes on the fast-food industry by combining Sixty Minutes-style reportage with reality television. The backbone of the film is Spurlock's experimentation on himself by eating nothing but fast food for a month. His progress from slim vegan to depressed, bloated meat-eater with elevated cholesterol and seriously impaired liver function is intercut with interviews, jokey animations and other flashy filmmaking devices that do nothing to contradict his underlying, serious point: many Americans are literally eating themselves to death.
That this film is worth noticing is proven by the number of critics, mostly on the right wing, who have lined up to take potshots against it. So Spurlock might have exaggerated, even cheated to make his point about how fast-food chains are contributing to America's obesity epidemic. Any fool can see that there's an agenda behind this film. The facts are incontrovertible, however: sixty percent of American adults are overweight. Obesity is now the second leading cause of preventable death. Major food manufacturers spend billions of dollars a year promoting their largely unhealthy products to the most vulnerable American consumer: children. This documentary should be mandatory viewing in all schools.
Crowd Pleasing Documentary! I'm LOVING IT!
Living on nothing but McDonalds for 30 days?
Spurlock says this is an extreme excercise - a bad idea. He purposefully limits his excercise to reflect the AVERAGE American (who gets little). The point of the experiment revolves around a court case where two girls sued McDonalds for making them fat. The case was thrown out saying they could not prove McDonalds was bad for you, or did anything to entice them. McDonalds claims its food is nutritious. He wanted to show the truth in an entertaining way. This is only about half of the movie!
Beyond the grand experiment lies a look into the culture of food in America. How McDonalds entices young children by marketing squarely at them, how Supersizing has lead to a lot of extra calories at little cost to the restaurant, and finally how all of this comes to play out in the schools where kids pick fries as a vegetable and candy bars to go with them. Why are we as a country fat? What are the ramifactions of obesity?
This film delves deeper than just the freakshow value of "guy gets fat and endangers liver with fast food diet!" If you are offended by this film check out the book FAST FOOD NATION which addresses all of this and looks at where the meat comes from! We need more documentaries like this! Entertaining and informative! I'm LOVING IT!
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