Who Puts the Food in Your Mouth?
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date published 02/10/2007
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Summary “Super Size Me”, rather than being a straightforward example of debauchery, is an allegory for the desperate need to change personal nutrition in America. Morgan Spurlock challenges the limits of obscenity in making “Super Size Me”, in which he goes on a thirty day “adventure”, eating only McDonald’s food and recording the tolls it takes on his body. Yet this movie’s purpose is not for the reader to sneer and laugh at the obese, there is a bigger point. Morgan Spurlock tries to depict the average consumer as innocent, while targeting corporations in his quest to prove them guilty. He created an ingenious movie, filled with many obvious and some not so obvious claims to why America is overweight, but there is a flaw in his reasoning. American diets, as “Super Size Me” claims, are destroyed by a luring corporate America, yet what Mr. Spurlock doesn’t realize is that the individual is more responsible for his own diet than the corporations are. He takes away from the importance of individuality by rendering many people he interviews as helpless and manipulated by corporations. He even manages to contradict himself on many occasions, making the purpose of the movie very unclear.
Table of Contents- 'Super Size Me', rather than being a straightforward example of debauchery, is an allegory for the desperate need to change personal nutrition in America.
- Spurlock's contradictions begin at the start of the movie, from the first sentence he utters on camera.
- It's not that Spurlock has the wrong idea; he just implements it the wrong way.
- Other people in the documentary are not as fortunate, in terms of the opinions they bring across.
- Spurlock had other silent strategies for showing the negative effects of fast food on an individual
- The big companies that Spurlock constantly refers to in his documentary are not the cause of the problem; they are the effect of it
- The corporations that Spurlock refers to are indeed heartless and will probably do anything for money, but as life teaches us, not everything is going to be handed to you on a silver platter
- In essence, this movie does not come as a complete shock, but rather convinces the average American to eat healthier and cook his or her own food
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