Supersize Me Movie Review

The movie Supersize Me depicts the fact that fast food is creating major health problems for Americans nowadays. In this documentary, a man named Morgan Spurlock, decides to make an experiment to test the effects caused by overeating fast food. In his experiment, he eats only food from McDonald’s in thirty days. At the beginning of the movie, we can see that this man has a very healthy body based on his age and size. However, later on, after a period of time of practicing a new diet of eating only MacDonald’s food, his health gradually becomes worse and worse until he becomes very ill, even before his the thirty-day experiment ends. While Spurlock is experimenting with his fast food diet, he also investigates contemporary issues that relate to the sale and consumption of fast food. The film puts particular emphasis on the growing number of obese Americans, the general ignorance of eating fast food, and questions how responsible people are for themselves versus how responsible corporations are for consumers’ health issues. By interviewing various people, carefully using a logical approach by documenting Spurlock’s activity and health during the experiment, providing plentiful statistics and information, making appeals to the audience’s emotions such as disgust and humor, and establishing credibility and trust from the audience, Morgan Spurlock argues in his documentary film Super Size Me that the consumption of fast foods are largely responsible for many Americans’ health problems today. In his documentary film, Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock makes the argument that fast food is not only unhealthy to eat, but is a leading cause for many Americans’ health problems. Spurlock makes appeals to all three parts of the rhetoric triangle in the film to make his arguments stronger and more effective. Spurlock gives the audience plenty of information and statistics to logically prove his points, and uses these statistics at the most appropriate moments to make his...