- He could only order what was on the menu or behind the McDonalds counter, nothing else beside that.
- Could only Super Size his order if asked.
- He was supposed to consume every fast food once at least in his thirty day fast food trial.
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- He had to have McDonalds three times a day, for breakfast, lunch and supper.
He carried out his fast food trail through 20 cities in America and interviewed various different statues folk off the growing American population. These people included professors, school PE teachers and McDonald’s regular customers. Once Spurlock had gathered up his crew and told his vegan chef girlfriend of his fast food extravaganza he went to see three different doctors to keep track of his health in the coming thirty days. His girlfriend was not to keen on the idea off him eating fast foods for thirty days, but she still agreed. The three doctors he visits are a cardiologist, gastroenterologist and a General Practitioner (GP). All three highly educated, types of doctors agree upon the point that Mr Spurlock will have affects which he will not like, but say he will not be affected that much because his body is very adaptive.
Spurlock starts his challenge by having his first meal of the day, Breakfast, in Manhattan, his beloved hometown. In Manhattan there is a McDonald fast food joint every quarter of a mile! Can you believe that? That’s just inhuman and insufficient. We’re have all the grocery stores and shopping malls disappeared too! Morgan also starts using the transport of taxis to make sure he only walks five thousand steps or less, each day. An average, working American walks at least five thousand steps a day. On day two of his freaky challenge, he consumes his first super sized order, because he is offered to supersize too supersize. One of his four rules has already come into action. He super sizes a cheese burger, so it becomes a double quarter pounder cheese burger and fries. He takes 20 minutes and more to consume his entire order. That’s how his super size meal is! During his Super Size meal he feels a “McStomach” coming on and then the “McSweats” and then he.................. VOMITS! It was gross! As each week passes by he feels more and more and more tired, lazy and deteriorated. Each week he gains 6lbs. This shows that McDonalds does make you gain weight rapidly, extremely rapidly! But fortunately, Morgan Spurlock dedicated producer and director and central subject of the documented movie does not give up in trying to promote his unforgiveable and painstaking message. Spurlock tells his viewers truthfully, that McDonald’s food is addictive, tasty and once you eat it you feel hungry after a short while and eat more of it. He also has the odd feeling of happiness and peacefulness in his soul as he consumes his McDonald meals each day. Unfortunately for all you McLovers fast foods only have unexpected and rebelliously, puky results of obesity on your inside and outer figure.
As he travels through the different cities of America he interviews different types of Americans, including the McDonald workers who surprisingly are mostly fat in this movie. He also interviews his health monitors, including the nutritionist woman, he sees every so often and young primary school children who are well acquainted with McDonald’s goofy looking clown. You’ve got to think about these innocent, young kids who will be obese when they grow up just because they eat too many McDonald’s happy meals since kindergarten.
Spurlock asks the common known factual question of “what is a calorie?” to fast food lovers and shockingly they don’t know! How stupid can you be at the age of about 30 to 40, not to know what a calorie is? Mr Spurlock also tries to ring up the McDonald’s phone line and discuss his health in relation to their foods but McDonalds, being a corrupt and uncaring , inconsiderate industry, just don’t answer it, or say “leave a message.” On day twenty of his greasy trail, poor Morgan Spurlock has major heart problems and according to his doctor his liver has also been affected badly. He is advised to cut the line. But knowing Spurlock and his big-ego he carries on. His girlfriend feels concerned, but does not stop him. Near the end Spurlock is in major bad health. His body is not adapting at all and he is desperately told to stop before the damage can never be reversed! On day 30 it turns out he gained a disgusting 25lbs, but he does not seem to be fussed. He seems kind of upset that it will be his last McDonald meal he shall be able to eat in a very long time. All the three doctors seem surprised at how much he is affected, in such a short time. It took five whole dreary months for Morgan Spurlock to lose all that access body weight he had gained in his fast food spree, all thanks to his girlfriend’s detox diet.
Spurlock, very brilliantly has humour in the way he puts forward his belief in fast foods causing obesity in many people in the world. He does this by asking primary school kids to identify common known people from the past or today just by their faces. All of them are able to identify the goofy clown known as Ronald McDonald, but none of them are acquainted with the familiar face of ............JESUS! How disgraceful. It turns out Ronald McDonald fast food freak creation is more popular than JESUS, founder of Christianity! They seem to think Jesus is George W Bush! Spurlock is trying to show parents and the older people, that their kids are only clever and happy to know who Ronald McDonald is, but they don’t know who Jesus is! Spurlock also has the decency and keen mind to provide the factual side to his movie as well, facts we didn’t even know until we watched this movie full of food gore and horrific sights, unimaginable for the human eye. This makes the documentary more effective for the audience. One unexpected fact is that McDonald’s salads contain ten teaspoons of sugar, yes ten! Salads are not even supposed to contain sugar, they’re supposed to be healthy are they not? The movie has a cheerful and different opening, to most other documentaries. It starts out with the children singing a song about fast foods on the beach. The whole sight may make you smile with happiness at first, but if you look at some of the children in the huddle, you will see that they are overweight. They just show the whole horrible truth behind fast foods. Super Size Me is funny and serious at the same time. During the long period of the movie Spurlock uses both animated graphics as well as reality to prove his intentional point. Another method that Spurlock uses to put forward his message is the use of text, and the usage of swearing is also included, for example, “sue the bastards.” This is how Spurlock feels about McDonalds. Who wouldn’t? Morgan Spurlock uses the technique of doing close-ups of people with obesity and the obese man’s operation to make the movie more exciting and interesting. It makes people want to watch it again and again. He almost makes it seem fictional in a way.
Super Size Me is about showing the cause of fast-food and the increase in obese people across the world, especially in America. It shows that fast foods have overtaken the goodness of home-made foods. Fast food for people is just an addictive, fatty product resource, that you don’t have to cook, you just order. By watching this film, Spurlock, clever minded producer and director has portrayed a true and disturbing message to his audience. You may not agree, but to prove your point you’ll need a persuasive argument and many facts to back it up just like Spurlock went out and did. I think allot of people will feel they need to change their eating habits from fast food to home food. Also it would be fab if governments could fund in getting healthier foods into schools and some fast food places just like McDonald’s. Spurlock notices the amounts of healthy foods missing from the school’s in the US, kid play parks (mostly set up by McD’s) and the balance missing between consuming fast foods and homemade healthier foods, like pasta and beans. People have to realise that McDonald’s will never stop at earning their big bucks in the wrong way; you have to learn to stop yourself.
I personally think that this movie will have a huge affect on some people, mostly the obese ones who have a huge intake of fast foods from McD’s regularly. I picked up on the point that Spurlock also knows that our health is not entirely our problem or the fast food industry’s problem, unfortunately. You’ll think off what you’re stuffing in your mouth, now that you’ve seen this movie, that’s what I thought. So quit the heavy, life decreasing foods and get up and make something for yourself for once.......
