A Documentation Analysis for "Super Size Me"

“Super Size Me” is a 2004 American documentary written and directed by Morgan Spurlock. In this documentary, he basically aims to inform the citizens who often eat fast food that restaurants such as McDonald, KFC, Taco Bell and alike could actually cause harmful effects to our bodies such as obesity, hypertension, gall bladder disease and many more. To prove this to his viewers, he decided to undergo a McDiet wherein for the next 30-days he would only eat food that comes from McDonald. In these 30-days, he was able to present to the viewers the many drastic effects of these types of fast food.

Morgan Spurlock is popularly known as a filmmaker, television producer, screenwriter and political activist. He studied in New York University and he is known as for his work, “Super Size Me”. In the film, the role of Spurlock was to narrate and to inform the viewers of the growing obesity in America and how the fast food restaurants located in the area were one of the main causes of this epidemic.

In the film, Morgan Spurlock was able to prove his points about the growing obesity in America because he was able to use several strategies, techniques and rhetorical appeals to support his claims. In terms of techniques and strategies, Spurlock was really able to show the effects of fast food because he himself underwent in this experiment. Like what was mentioned earlier, he consumed only foods and drinks found in McDonald. He was not allowed to eat anything besides that, in result, it increased his body fat, calories, cholesterol and many more, which were all originally healthy back when he did not consume all these foods.

In terms of the rhetorical appeal, Spurlock was able to apply the appeal of ethos because he relied on doctors such as a cardiologist, gastroenterologist, general practitioner and a dietitian to provide him with the basic information he needed when it came to how healthy he was and the reasons behind the possibilities of why he had constant headaches,...